Event # 1

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For my first event, I attended the meteorite lab in the Geology building at UCLA. I found the experience to be rather enlightening particularly in the way it tied into art and science. The Lab included different meteoroids that were found through the world and facts about them. Though the lab was rather small, there was still a lot of information there to be learned about meteorites. One of the first things that I noticed when I looked at them was that all of the meteorites had an intrinsic beauty.




















This surprised me because I came in with the expectation that my visit would be purely scientifically informative. However, after noticing the beauty it made me start thinking about where the lines are drawn between art and science. It made me ask the question, can a work of art contain scientific value? And also, can a scientific object hold artistic value. It's in our society's nature to want to put things in boxes and portray something as only existing in one capacity. However, in doing so we ignore the complexity of our own world.





Going to this meteorite lab will definitely help me with my midterm and final project. I don't have the details yet but I plan to do my project on the differences and similarities between math and art. I would without a doubt recommend this lab to my classmates. First of all, because it's just a cool informative lab, but more importantly because it will make you question your current ideas of the artistic value of science.











 
“Meteorite Collection.” UCLA, meteorites.ucla.edu/.


“Meteorite Collection.” Specola Vaticana.
 

“Types of Meteorites.” Natural History Museum.
 
“The Meteorite Exchange, Inc.” The Meteorite Exchange, Inc., www.meteorite.com/. 
 
“METEORITE TYPES AND CLASSIFICATION.” Geology, geology.com/meteorites/meteorite-types-and-classification.shtml.  






 

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