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NHM Geology (by azulikeit)
This specimen is at the Natural History Museum in London, UK. Anyone like to take a guess at what this is?
A T. rex named Sue (by yoffie_2000)
If you’re ever up or near Chicago, IL, I suggest going to The Field Museum and visiting the largest, most complete, and most preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered. It’s one of the most breathtaking skeletons you will ever see in person, and definitely a great museum overall to explore!
Some information about Sue (catalog number: FMNH PR 2081):
- Overall length: 40.5 feet.
- Height: 13 feet at the hips.
- Estimated to have weighed over 7 tons when alive.
- Weight of skeleton: 3,922 lbs.
- The length of Sue’s skull is 5 feet, and weighing 600 lbs.
- She is named after the palaeontologist who found her, Susan Hendrickson, in Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota on August 12, 1990.
- Sue’s bones are the biggest of all T. rex skeletons ever found.
- Sue is estimated to have been 28 years old when she died, making her the oldest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered.
- The skeleton is so well preserved that palaeontologists can actually see where muscles, ligaments, and tendons attached, along with the cellular structure within the bones is immaculately preserved.
- Sue is the first T. rex to have ever been discovered with a furcula (wishbone), gastralia (stomach ribs), and a stapes (ear bone).
National Science Museum by Pengin! on Flickr.
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Space Travel: The Interplanetary Tours Reservation Desk
Imaged Above: Planetary time-schedule
I’ve had a hand full of you folks asking about my opinion on commercialized space travel and where its headed. So it’s my delight to bring up this article from wired that highlights old and now considered novelty items from the American Museum of Natural History that take us back to a point in history that shows space travel was still very much alive within public interests:
Today, space travel is closer to reality for ordinary people than it has ever been. Though currently only the super rich are actually getting to space, several companies have more affordable commercial space tourism in their sights and at least one group is going the non-profit DIY route into space.
But more than a decade before it was even proven that man could reach space, average people were more positive about their own chances of escaping Earth’s atmosphere. This may have been partly thanks to the Interplanetary Tour Reservation desk at the American Museum of Natural History.
In 1950, to promote its new space exhibit, the AMNH had the brilliant idea to ask museum visitors to sign up to reserve their space on a future trip to the moon, Mars, Jupiter or Saturn. They advertised the opportunity in newspapers and magazines and received letters requesting reservations from around the world. The museum pledged to pass their list on to whichever entity headed to each destination first.
Today, to promote its newest space exhibit, “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration,” the museum has published some of these requests. The letters manage to be interesting, hopeful, funny and poignant all at once. Some even included sketches of potential space capsules, rockets and spacesuits. The museum shared some of its favorites.
Head on over to the source to check even more content from the gallery!
From the Large Hadron Collider to The Museum Of Jurassic Technology, or The American Classic Arcade Museum to Space, learn about nine super awesome places to check out in your lifetime.
NASA Signs Over Space Shuttle Enterprise to NYC Museum
(Pictured Above: Artist’s concept for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s NASA’s space shuttle Enterprise will land next summer on the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. The World War II aircraft-carrier-turned-museum took over ownership of the prototype winged orbiter on Tuesday (Nov. 22) in preparation for Enterprise’s delivery in 2012.
(Pictured Above: Artist’s concept for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s proposed exhibition center, which is to feature space shuttle Enterprise. Credit: Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum)
“NASA is proud to transfer the title of space shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a written statement released by the museum. “The USS Intrepid had a rich history with NASA’s mission, and Enterprise — the pathfinder for the space shuttle program — belongs in this historic setting.”
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Space Geeks Unite! Out-of-This-World Objects Land at NYC Museum Saturday
OhMyScience! Anybody care to join me on this? No? Okay I’ll go alone.
A Space Age treasure trove of artifacts is being assembled here at the American Museum of Natural History.
Objects ranging from space garbage to spacesuits, a Mars meteorite, a space shuttle bolt and more are being gathered for the museum’s new temporary exhibition, “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration,” which opens to the public Nov. 19.
Pulling together a diverse inventory of artifacts and models to illustrate space exploration’s past, present and future has been a complex process spanning more than 18 months.
Planning for the show started with the curator and AMNH’s exhibition department, with input from many others, such as the museum’s education department. These teams researched the best possible ways to tell their story, and reached out to other museums, scientists, companies and collectors to ask to borrow their treasures.
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