Matthias M. M. Meier

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Meteorites, Museums, Mars, Mountains and many more things. Meteoriticist, Noble Gaser, Space Nerd, Family Man. Director of Naturmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland. Posts in English and German. Private account. 🇨🇭🇸🇪🇲🇫🇪🇺🇺🇦 orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-4173

A sign on the door of a train saying: "Please don't "Schletz" the Door - Thank You".
The cover of the softcover book "The story of birds - a new history from their dinosaur origina to the present", by Steve Brusatte, is photographed at a slight angle. Several birds as well as two feathered dinosaurs can be seenon the cover.
View of a part of a modern, generally black building, with lowered shades, on a sunny day in spring. The lines formed by the windows and shades are all slightly and chaotically tilted against one another.
The Hoher Kasten mountain in Switzerland, snow covered in front of an almost clear blue sky. A few geeen hills below. A forest and a sking slope are visible in the foreground.
The northern alps, undulating to jagged terrain, slightly tilting to the right, some partially snow-covered mountainsand peaks are visible in the background. A few trees in the front. All of it under a clear, dark blue sky.
The skull of an Edmontosaurus annectens mummy is shown laying on a bed, ready to be scanned in an MRI. Two persons are patially visible, one of them has a white doctor's coat.
A full-sized snake eagle taxidermy mounted on a short bar coming out of a wall in a museum exhibit. The bird looks exactly in the direction of the camera. In the background, other birds are visible, as is a mural showing trees and mountains.
A life-sized, ca. half-meter long, model of an Anomalocaris, a arthropod hunter from the Cambrian, is seen in a museum setting. Underneath, a group of three Pikaia (also models, under glass) tries to escape. In the background, more objects can be seen, among them, trolobites and a dinosaur skeletton mount.
This comic depicts the "death knocking" meme, where a grim reaper (labelled JWST here) is knocking on a door (labelled Trappist-1e here). Three other doors (labelled Trappist-1b, Trappist-1c, Trappist-1d) are already open, with some blood covering the floor.
A valley with steep slopes covered by forest, and a river (the Binna) bareley visible at its bottom, barely visible. In the left foreground, a large tree casts its branches through the picture, in the back of the valley, a single, pointy peak stands against a blue, clouded sky. The atmosphere of the image is serene, calm, sunny, and you can almost smell the pine trees.
A flat pond, with some stones, some plants, perhaps flowers, on some worn down rocks the glacier left behind when it retreated in the 19th century. In the background, the white vastness of the Aletsch glacier, streaked with dark moraines, between dark, partially snowcaped mountains. A blue, yet slightly cloudy sky stands above, and in the reflection of the pond.
Two trees obstruct the view over a green mountain valley, with a small city in the distance. A rock, grass and some smaller trees are in the foreground. There will be rain, later...
A colorful and joyful bug made from paper (colored by crayon in all rainbow colors) and some fluffy colorful legs,pinned to a blue background.
A panoramic view of blue-green Lake Thunersee in Switzerland, a dark/bright green forest in the foreground, with the pyramid-shaped Niesen mountain rising behind the lake and some clouds making dramatic shapes in the sky above.
A giant triceratops (partial) fossil recobstruction, illuminated in glowing pink and blue colors, "Willard", at Sauriermuseum Aathal, Switzerland.
Th Nizwa fort seen from inside. A high, circular wall surrounds an interior area of about 50 m diameter, with some buildings on the area and a white flagpole that is higher than the image. In the distance behind the wall, a brown mountain range is visible.
A black rock lies on a light, sandy ground, with a pen for scale nearby. The pen is about 5 times the length of the rock.
A very flat plane in the desert, a bright, almost white ground under a slightly cloudy sky. Two people are walking on it, looking away.
In the desert, a pick-up is seen from the back, parked next to a concrete small building, with a camera installation on top. A man in bright clothing and a hat is standing on the back of the pickup, facing the camera, with his hands on a keyboard and his eyes on a screen, both plugged in at the camera installation. Also, a desk with some electronic equipment, tapes and cables is seen in the foreground.
Three people standing on the roof of a building under a bright sky, contemplating a technical installation at the center of the image.
A view of the coastal mountain range of Oman, with brown, bare, rocky peaks in the back, gravel and some green bushes in the foreground.
An Oman Air 787-9 Dreamliner jet seen through a glass window at Zurich Airport at night. Some passers-by inside the building are seen as reflections.
It is dark in Tolkiens Middle Earth. After discovering that the wizard Saruman killed many trees for his Orc factory at Isengard, the Ents attack the factory. Many ents are seen steping over the charred ground, one of them, in the image center, called Treebeard, carries two Hobbits.
The Aescher, a hut/small mountain restaurant made with wood, sits cuddled to the base of a steep, overhanging rock wall on the right hand side. A grass-covered slope with some snow on it lies underneath it. A narrow trail in the foreground, with some guardrails, leads to the hut. The sky, only visible on the left hand side, is cloudy/foggy.
A glacier winds its way in the middle of a barren, rocky valley, with snow-capped peaks in the distance under a slightly cloudy sky. In front of it, a forested mountain flank sets a contrast to glacier and mountains with various greens.
Pictures of continental USA and the world atlas with text: tell me where you are from using only two words.
A wild mountain river in its bed full of boulders of different sizes, with snow-capped mountains in the distance.
A field of pink flowers along a path in a valley, which leads to snow-capped mountains in the distance. The flanks of the valley are coverd in dark green forests.
Full disk image of Mars, taken during closest approach to Earth in 2003.
The giant Mammoth of Siegsdorf (Bavaria, Germany), or rather its reconstructed skeletton, taking the center place in a room of the communal Mammoth Museum.
In the Swiss mountains, a modern terminus station of a cable car overviews the valley below. Under its foundations, the mountain is composed of layered calcite rocks.
A screenshot from the overview screen of a legacy space strategy game.
An image of the the Earth, taken by the Voyager space probe, from very far away. The Earth is thus only a pale blue dot in darkness, except for some image artifacts, including a "beam of light" in which that pale blue dot seems to be suspended.
A view of Seealpsee, a small, blue-green lake in the prealps of Eastern Switzerland, surounded by light forst, in front of several mountain peaks, some of them snow-caped.
Eine Fledermaus-Schnittschablone, die zu einem Drittel ausgemalt ist - im leeren Feld steht: "sorry, muste gehen :)".
Astrophysicist Thomas Zurbuchen and philosopher Barbara Bleisch sitting together and discussing, laughing, on a podium in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the background, a title image says "Mensch & Universum" (Humanity & Universe).
A large (ca. 20 x 12 cm) cut piece of an iron meteorite, with the Widmanstätten pattern visible, containing also three large, elongated troilite inclusions.
A view of the surface of Mars, showing several boulders of different sizes with visibly different geology: bright ones, dark ones, bland ones, spotted ones, rounded ones, angular ones, even a rock with a slightly pink hue.
A group of three cows standing in the grass, with yellow flowers in the foreground and mountains in the background.
A view from inside a cave. The entrance is not directly visible but its approximate direction is given by the sunlight reflecting off the cave walls. A large, moss-covered rock is also visible.
Tweet by David Kipping: "The Moon is ~400x smaller than the Sun but ~400x further away => same angular diameter (0.5°) - which is why #TotalEclipse2024 happens! Interestingly, fort he exomoon candidate K1625b-i, this is also true! From K1625b, star is (0.93+-0.01)° and K1625b-i is (0.95+-0.17)°. To scale: (Picture showing Earth/Moon and Kepler-1625b / Kepler-1625b-i systems, and actual size comparison)
Taxidermy mount of a beautiful black carrion crow
A delta-v map of the solar system, styled a "subway map", showing the amount of delta-v (in meters per second) necessary to reach different destinations, orbits and surfaces throughout the solar system.
A photograph of an almost full-phase Mercury, made by the MESSENGER space probe in 2008.
Artist impressions of the nearest, "potentially habitable" worlds, showing deserts, clouds, oceans on several of the planets.
Map of the magnetic field of Mars observed by the MGS satellite at a nominal 400-km altitude (from Connerney et al., 2005)
Research word cloud for Matthias M. M. Meier, the most prominent words being meteorite, asteroid, exposure, noble, grains, cosmic and age.
Clear morning skies above the Mont Blanc massive as seen from Les Houches
A screenshot from the "Civilization II" game featuring ocean, hills, fields, cities - and roads.
Two boxed samples of the Valera meteorite, which killed a cow in 1972.
A Therizinosaur shown with brown fur, ungainly shape and its characteristic giant claws.
Disk of planet Jupiter as seen through the telescope, with impact flash and a scaled computer-generated image of the Earth for scale.
Cave bear remains in boxes: bones, teeth
Rust-covered piece of iron meteorite Odessa