Field Trip to the U of A Flandrau Science Center and Gem & Mineral Museum

On Thursday we went to the University of Arizona Flandra Science Center

and the Gem & Mineral Museum

It was a busy morning at the Uof A with students walking and biking to get to class

The bells were tolling as it was just turning 10:00am, opening time for the museum.

I-Man thought it was facinating and mentioned that he wants to go here for school.

J-Man standing between to real meteorites.

They were very hard and you could see shiny specks

where the metal was peeking out from being touched so much.

Here was a whole cabinet full of Iron Meteorites

you could clearly see the "Widmanstatten" pattern

on the cross section of the meteorite samples

Here is a close up look

Malachite - they had many samples of malachite

it always had a circular pattern to it.

Here is a case of Stony Meteorites

They had many chondrite samples and you could really see

 the chondruls (small ball of silicate)  in them

this meteorite was fully iron

J-Man thought the calcite looked like Dinosaur Teeth

I don't remember what this one is called but I thought

it looked like cream with jagged pieces placed in it

This is not gold but I thought it looked awesome

another malachite sample

The boys standing by a mined piece of copper

Mr. Mr. standing in  front of the Diamondback Rattlesnake Tank

J-Man in front of the Gila Monster Tank

Mr.Mr., J-Man and I-Man standing next to a Fin Whale Vertebra

I-Man, Mr. Mr. and J-Man in front of a 900 lb slab of copper

The mining cart at the end of our museum tour

Time to go home.

The boys standing with their souveniers in front of the meteorite statue.

The museum never dissapoints, it was a great learning experience.