Mattel puts Barbie into space. And a new space collectible is born. Remember not to open the package!
- Mattel’s Astronaut Barbie becomes a Mars Explorer with help from NASA – collectSPACE
- New Astronaut Barbie Sports Pink Space Boots – TIME.com
Category Archives: Space Collecting
Space memorabilia at Paul Fraser Collectibles
The Paul Fraser Collectibles site in the UK includes space memorabilia in their on line store:
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Steve Jurvetson’s space museum on display
Steve Jurvetson of the venture capital firm DFJ invests in a number of space related businesses such as SpaceX. He also invests in space memorabilia. Here are some pictures of his huge collection of space artifacts: Steve Jurvetson’s Space Collection – Business Insider.
UK auction today of signed photos by US astronauts and Russian/Soviet cosmonauts
I’ve been informed by UKAuctioneers.com that they are holding an auction today of a collection of autographs that includes
a large quantity of signed photographs by Russian/Soviet cosmonauts and US astronauts including Buzz Aldrin and Alan Bean.
For a listing of the items and to participate in the auction see: The Mark Whitworth Collection – An Important Sale of Autographs and Related Ephemera – UKAuctioneers.com.
“Black Beauty” – a watery meteorite from Mars
In this video from the SETI Institute‘s weekly seminar series, Carl B. Agee of the University of New Mexico talks about a special meteorite from Mars:
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Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 is a new type of martian meteorite discovered in Morocco in 2011. NWA 7034 aka “Black Beauty”, nicknamed for its dark shiny appearance, contains ten times more water than other martian meteorites. This combined with its oxidation state which is highest among martian meteorites, its anomalous oxygen isotope values, and its early Amazonian age, make it an extraordinarily valuable specimen for understanding surface processes, aqueous alteration, and atmosphere/lithosphere exchange reactions that existed on Mars ~2 billion years ago.
Agee will show that Black Beauty appears to be the first martian meteorite to match the surface geochemistry of Mars, as seen by landers and orbiters, and as such, it has particular relevance to the current Mars Science Laboratory mission at Gale Crater.