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Out-of-this-world ‘Cosmic Microscapes’
lands at the High Desert Museum
BY DAVID JASPER • The Bulletin
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If You Go
xtraterrestrials are coming to the High Desert Museum. One of them is even a Martian. That’s not “extraterrestrial”
or “Martian” in the sci-fi sense the two words often connote, but it is otherworldly: Seattle photographer Neil H.
Buckland and University of Washington geology professor and meteorite scientist Tony Irving, who use those
words to describe meteorites in “Cosmic Microscapes,” have collaborated to create a fascinating new exhibit that makes its
world — the world we call Earth, that is — premiere Saturday at the museum just south of Bend.
What: “Cosmic Miscroscapes” premiere
When: Saturday through July 18,
during museum hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
daily
Where: High Desert Museum, 59800
U.S. Highway 97, Bend
Cost: Free with admission
Contact: highdesertmuseum.org
Submitted photo
Seattle photographer Neil H. Buckland created this image from a paper-thin sliver of a Martian
meteorite called a nakhlite.
The two were in town earlier this week
helping to set up the exhibit, which features
11 large panels as well as a number of terres-
trial rocks not just from Earth, but also from
the neighborhood, including basalt from
Lava Butte and obsidian from Newberry
caldera, both just a few miles south of the
museum, as well as rocks from Mount Hood
and pumice from Mount St. Helens.
Irving and Buckland met when a private
meteorite collector sought to have his sub-
stantial meteorite collection photographed.
(meteors are what you see shooting through
the sky, Irving explains; meteorites are the
actual rocks from space).
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