Out of this World Discoveries
By Pamela Morales, MOST History Communications
EDINBURG, Texas — Celebrate the opening of “The Shooting Star of Starr County: An Out of this World Discovery” exhibit from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, during Out of this World Discoveries program at the Museum of South Texas History.
This temporary exhibit will feature a two-fold story: how meteors fell through the sky across Europe and the United States before crash landing on a ranch in South Texas and the history of space rocks. Several meteorite pieces found on the ranch property will be featured behind state-of-the-art cases with a 360-view.
Visitors can enjoy a variety of hands-on activities and demonstrations coordinated by the RGV Science Association, South Texas Astronomical Society and the South Texas Space Science Institute from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Each organization will provide hands-on activities and demonstrations such as creating a comet with clay and foil and finding micrometeorites with a microscope.
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley professors Liliana Rivera-Sandoval and Dr. Mario Díaz will present via Zoom on topics related to astronomy and astrophysics at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and a presentation in Spanish is scheduled at 11:30 a.m. Zoom presentations will be held within the exhibit.
Complete a trivia questionnaire to enter a raffle for a chance to win entrance to UTRGV’s H-E-B Planetarium free-of-charge. This opportunity brought you by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, South Texas Space Science Institute.
Out of this World Discoveries program is included in the museum’s admission fees. Free admission from 10 a.m. to noon and after 12:01 p.m., regular admission fees apply. For more information, please contact Communications Officer Pamela Morales de Hendricks at 956-383-6911.
About Museum of South Texas History
The Museum of South Texas History is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. It is located downtown Edinburg at 200 North Closner Boulevard on the Hidalgo County Courthouse square. Founded in 1967 as the Hidalgo County Historical Museum in the 1910 Hidalgo County Jail, the museum has grown over the decades through a series of expansions to occupy a full city block. In 2003, following the completion of a 22,500 square foot expansion, the museum was renamed the Museum of South Texas History to better reflect its regional scope. Today, the museum preserves and presents the borderland heritage of South Texas and northeastern Mexico through its permanent collection and the Margaret H. McAllen Memorial Archives and exhibits spanning prehistory through the 20th century. For more information about MOSTHistory, including becoming a FRIEND, visit MOSTHistory.org, like us on Facebook and Instagram, follow on Twitter, find on YouTube
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