Event 1: Meteorite Gallery
For my first event, I went to the meteorite gallery located in the Geology Building on the UCLA campus. I took an oceanography class last year which was located in the Geology building so I would walk past this meteorite collection every day while going to class. While walking around the gallery, you can see that it is not a very big space but there is a lot of objects and displays fit into the room. Looking at all of the displays I was able to see how art and science can be interconnected, something that we learned during our first week of the class. 
There were many beautiful and intriguing meteorites in the collection, however, one caught my attention. It was very smooth, unlike the other rocks in the collection. It was the largest one in the room, its name was “Old Women Iron Meliorate.” The plaque describing the meliorate informed me that it weighed more than three tons and is the second largest meteorites from the US. 
I would recommend going to see the gallery to a friend. Its cool to see how art can science can be conjoined. You can see how science can be transferred into art which allows people to learn new things that they might not have been interested before.
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“UCLA Meteorite Collection Finally Reaches the Public.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2014, www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-meteorite-museum-20140111-story.html.
“Meteorite Collection.” UCLA, meteorites.ucla.edu/.
“Types of Meteorites.” Natural History Museum.
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