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A Piece of Vesta Has Been Stolen!
universetoday.com ^
| August 20, 2014
| Jason Major on
Posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Aug. 19 a burglary was reported at the Sonnenborgh Museum and Observatory in Utrecht, Netherlands, and one of the items missing is a meteorite that is thought to have originated from the asteroid Vesta.
Seen above in a photo from the museum’s collection, the Meteorite of Serooskerken was recovered from a rare fall in 1925 in the province of Zeeland. Only five meteorites have ever been found in the Netherlands, making the Serooskerken specimen somewhat of a national treasure – not to mention a valuable piece of our Solar System’s history!
About 5–6% of all the meteorites found on Earth are thought to be from Vesta, the second-largest world in the main asteroid belt.
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The Meteorite of Serooskerken at the Sonnenborgh Museum (Source: Sterrenwacht Sonnenborgh)
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:31:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It was a bad in-vesta-ment.
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:35:49 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: BenLurkin
On the other hand, the museum’s Vespa is safe and sound.
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:36:44 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Slings and Arrows
Oh no, they have stolen the third stone. Now they can
complete the ritual and open the gates of hell, finally.
We are doomed.
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:40:55 PM PDT
by
Slambat
To: Slambat
Hell, schmell. I wish they would open the gates of the bar.
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:43:14 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: Army Air Corps
Ever ride with a vested vestal virgin on a vespa?
To: Slambat
I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:48:37 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: Army Air Corps
It will turn you a whiter shade of pale.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:49:28 PM PDT
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: BenLurkin
Cleaning lady thought it was just a dirty old rock and threw it out.
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:53:05 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: BenLurkin
The thief has one chance with it.
[Yeah, I know it doesn't look like a very good skimmer]
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:58:41 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: BenLurkin
BANG DING OW! Here it is.
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:02:58 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Slings and Arrows
It was a bad in-vesta-ment. This is no time for puns! A crime was committed. The police will have to in-vesta-gate. So far, they only have one clue. A suspicious person was seen loitering around the museum's vesta-bule.
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:11:19 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: BenLurkin
It would impress me more if they stole it FROM Vespa.
Taking a rock from a Swede really isn't very challenging.
/johnny
To: Leaning Right
He was dressed in a minister’s vesta-ments.
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:15:09 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: Slings and Arrows
O RLY?
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:18:16 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: Slings and Arrows
LOL. You gotta love Free Republic.
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:22:13 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: BenLurkin
Is that the one with kryptonite in it?
To: BenLurkin
Also still missing:
Anopticon
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:27:48 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: Daffynition
Santa really lets himself go in the off-season.
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posted on
08/20/2014 8:32:21 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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