First batch of Omani meteorites returns from Switzerland

Muscat: Following a procedure of study, order and observing in Switzerland, the main bunch of Omani shooting star segments have come back to the Sultanate, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture has said. 

"At the home office of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, the main group of Omani shooting stars that were in the guardianship of the Natural History Museum in the Swiss capital, Bern was given over yesterday as per the notice of understanding marked in 2009, to contemplate and order the shooting stars that yielded significant data of these shooting stars, identifying with their various sources, which will help ensure and protect them as indicated by the correct gauges," said the service. 

"The primary gathering incorporates two uncommon shooting stars that are only sometimes found at worldwide level, and start from the moon and Mars, and go back billions of years," included the service. "This accompanies the beginning of the appearance of a group of Swiss researchers to proceed with the three-week overview program covering explicit zones of the governorates of the Sultanate." 

In an announcement, HE Salim container Mohammed Al Mahrouqi, the Undersecretary for Heritage Affairs at the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, stated: "Getting these uncommon shooting star fragments is the start of the arrival of shooting stars that have been gathered, grouped and contemplated during the previous years with the interest of an Omani group of masters, as per the collaboration program between the service and the Natural History Museum in Bern, alongside the University of Bern, which is viewed as the main worldwide research focus in land considers." 

"The accepting of the shooting stars speaks to an augmentation of a progression of techniques taken since the exchange of the elements of the Department of Geological Heritage to the Ministry, and this incorporates the way toward posting and gathering all shooting stars in the Sultanate and ensuring them, and building a database as indicated by an order program dependent on the characterization of shooting stars," he included. "Limit is being fabricated and created to deal with this significant part of our land legacy, just as the consenting to of another arrangement with the Swiss group, which incorporates purposeful and logical methods that lead to profiting by the significant and uncommon nature of Oman shooting stars."