ENSISHEIM Meteorite 2010 news
(Last update: May 19, 2009)
Dear meteorite friends,
Some technical inconveniences related to my
recent office move and additional small health
problems (leg injury) might explain this quite
late official announcement of the 11th edition of
our Ensisheim show that I traditionally use to forward to the listees.
Your frequent requests and questions regarding
this henceforth unavoidable event argue for your
intact (sometimes anxious) interest to meet again
in the city that houses, since 518 years, the
most famous meteorite of the Solar
system! Should we be numerous again to celebrate
the next Spring-Summer transition by sharing
again our (old, new or renewed) passions for
extraterrestrial objects of asteroidal or
planetary origin (meteorites) or from true
terrestrial sources (tektites, impactites).
Yes, definitely, « Ensisheim 2010 » is well
scheduled for next June, now 11 years in a row.
The detailed (official) flyer will be ready very
soon. It will be sent on specific request, by
E-mail as attachment, in English or French version (please specify).
As every year, here you will find again, as a
preview (only for you!), a summary of the main
characteristics of this 11th edition.
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Show dates:
Saturday June 19 to Sunday June 20, 2010 (the
week-end preceding the nearby Ste Marie mineral show).
Main show theme: Tektites & Impactites
Side show theme: The conquest of space: man on Mars by 2025 ?
Friday June 18 schedule:
Friday 19 is usually the "dealers day" devoted
for tables/booth set up. Oppositely to the 2009
edition, the Regency Palace rooms are again
exclusively open to dealers (14:00 - 18:30), and
not anymore to the general public.
Note: the dealers can also (continue to) set up
their booths on Saturday morning (7:30 9:30)
before the official show opening (9:30).
The Regency Palace rooms close on Friday 18:30
and all the opening ceremonies then start on the
main square: inaugural address, enthroning ceremonies, friendly drink...
This 11th show edition is more specifically
dedicated to the memory of Christian ANGER, our
beloved Brother and everybodys friend, who
suddenly left us to explore other skies
Friday dinner party
The henceforth traditional Friday Dinner Party
will start at 20:00, on the main square, inside
the tents, almost in the open air (as we had a
mini cold wave in 2009 we firmly ordered the
weather to fully co-operate again, as in the past).
Two meals, selectively prepared by the owner of
the nearby restaurant "Le Boeuf Rouge" are proposed.
Both are chefs specials, one based on minced
beef, the other on minced fowl (poultry), both
accompanied by either home made spëtzle (kind
of egg noodles, Alsaces special - recommended)
or French fries (on request), along with season
vegetables. A choice desert (cooks surprise) is included.
Price: 12 Euro (!), beverages not included.
Beer is unlimited (would you believe ?) and the
recommended wines include 2 special vintages,
namely "Ensisheim-Meteorite 1492" Pinot Gris
(white) and "Ensisheim-Meteorite 1492" Pinot Noir
(red). Other red wines that traditionally
accompany meat-based menus (Bordeaux....) will be available.
Party can end any time (possibly before the
"meteorite hot rush" the next morning....)
Everybody (organizers, dealers, close friends,
"loose" friends, relatives, related, tramps,
unknowns...) attending (or not) the dealer's day
& enthroning ceremonies + the "friendly drink", is warmly welcome!
Please, let me know (e.g. by mail) early enough,
ideally before June 11 (slightly flexible
deadline), if you want to attend the
dinner-party, how many guests you will bring and
which menu (beef or poultry) you would prefer.
This reservation is a must, for obvious reasons
(menu selection and preparation). But please
reserve only if you are sure to attend! Last year
we had 105 reservations but only 82 people showed
up! Meeting your commitments would exempt us from
asking deposits in future (I hate heavy and
unnecessary administration, so please
.)
Fun absolutely guaranteed during the party (the
tradition that the one who can't have fun pays ME
a beer is still relevant.....and, believe me, I prefer to stay thirsty!)
Saturday and Sunday activities:
* Show opening:
- Saturday: 9:30 18.00
- Sunday: 9:30 16.00 (possibility to
stay up to the official show end (17:00)
* General activities: Sales, trades,
exchanges
of various extraterrestrial
objects
(but is it really useful to repeat this one more time ?).
Please note: minerals and fossils are prohibited!
* Side activities: up to your best inspiration.
Here we are very flexible indeed but
please just
stay under the elemental legal constraints.
* To help you having even more fun (is this possible ?), we can offer:
- Permanent musical entertainment by the
Ensisheims Accordion Assocation (Saturday 18:00 20:00)
- Country music and dance demo by the world
famous Ansa Elsass Country Jumper group. (you
could appreciate a few surprises there
.) (Sat. 20:30 21:30)
- Younger music (techno & related ?) by the
Ensisheim College Orchestra teens
(Sunday 11:30-12:30)
- Don't forget that the main square is a
permanent dance floor any time, anyhow, for every age!
Saturday dinner
The Saturday dinner (not official but strongly
recommended to all participants) can either take
part in the tents (or in the open air) on the
main "dancing" square or anywhere else.
- On the square you will find traditional light
meals involving "tarte flambée" and alike,
various snacks + "selected liquids", all served by the organizers.
- For anywhere else, we specifically recommend
the option that had met a significant success in
2009: Go to the restaurant "Le Boeuf Rouge"
located on the other side of the church, 20 m
from the tents. More than 120 guests can sit
inside, in case of cold weather (very unlikely),
but also in the friendly open air courtyard. This
large open resort is partly covered by a wooden
roof (in improbable case of rain), partly just sun-protected by wineyard.
Meals are proposed there "à la carte" at very
friendly prices (food quality to price ratio
largely positive) and beverage variety is unlimited.
The advantage of that option (Boeuf Rouge) is
not only the excellent food (we had a very
positive feedback last year) but also its
proximity to the main hotel "Domaine du Moulin"
or to the "dancing square", whereto you could
walk (or "creep"...?) any time in the deep night....
NEW!
This year we decided to follow some pertinent
suggestions and to install 5-6 rounded tables (6
chairs per table) with umbrellas all around the
square where meals based on grilled meat,
sausages, merguez
and French fries + salad or
alike, are served permanently during the show and
more particularly during the lunch and dinner times.
Saturday & Sunday lunches
Traditional lunches + all other specific snacks,
including the very popular "tarte flambée"
(Alsatian pie) as well as the new options
(grilled meat) are permanently served outside
(umbrella-protected tables) or inside (sun and/or rain-protected tent).
Lunches can be served to exhibitors in the
Regency Palace on noon time, on specific request.
Other activities
All the other activities on the main square
(beer, wine sale, beer, tee shirts, lager,
snacks, beer, meteorite smuggling, Polish vodka
(?), mugs, beer, pins, wine tasting, Meteor
beer, discussions, Russian brandy (?), Columbus
memories, lager, tequila (?), beer, market
trends, water (??)... and permanent museum visits
are maintained (some highly recommended!).
Exhibits related to the show themes
1) Thematic display in Regency museum
The traditional meteorite display in the museum
containing the 53.831 kg Ensisheim queen
meteorite, is replaced this year by an unusual
display of high quality TEKTITES and some
IMPACTITES (so as to once meet the generic title of the show).
For reasons of simplicity in the organization and
because of the various delays we had to manage,
(almost) all the displayed pieces are from my
personal (modest but still representative)
collection, with a special emphasis to Philippine
tektites that are either spectacular in size or
groove design (Paracale) or that show
weird/aesthetic shapes (Anda-type) or are
sculpted into freaky objects (Cambodia). Most are
anecdotic finds of which the history will be
explicated and/or illustrated by original pictures taken on site.
The display can always be completed, as it is the
tradition, by some other few wonders from other
private (anonymous or official) collections...
Yes, this is a call for samples! Just write. You
can't believe how many things can be arranged at the last minute!
2) Thematic display in the Spiess hall (first
room on the right side when you are at the top of the Palace spiral staircase).
* 3 replicas of the famous ARIANE-series
rockets on loan from the CNES (French National
Space Center), namely Ariane-3, -4 and -5.
* A display window showing the ins and the
outs of the newly created Mars Society
Belgium, including a few things you always
wanted to know about planet Mars and some
related Martian meteorites. Pierre-Emmanuel
Paulus and Etienne Lefebvre, members of the MSB,
will be happy to answer any of your concerns.
This year, we have two plenary lectures related to the appropriate themes:
1) Etienne LEFEBVRE (Belgium): "Target Mars: the
Big Adventure of the 21st Century " (Saturday, 15:00-16:00)
2) Guy HEINEN (Linger, Luxembourg): Tektites:
Witnesses of Cosmic Catastrophes (Sunday,
11:00-11:30); video presented and animated by
Zelimir Gabelica (unfortunately Guy wont be able to make it personally)
Accommodation
Warning!
The well known hotel "La Couronne" is now definitely closed!
The nearest hotel is now the "Domaine du Moulin"
where Id urge you to make room reservation,
should you wish to stay at a walking distance of the show.
The "Niemerich" (Pulversheim) and the "Cheval
Blanc" (Baldersheim) hotels, both about 5 km
distant from Ensisheim (excellent tip for those
having a car) are also always welcoming you.
Everybody must arrange for his own accommodation!
You will find soon all hotel data (phone, fax,
e-mail, web sites) on the flyer.
If you call, they all do speak English and German (perhaps French ?).
Should you need hotel data right now, please write.
Other features, data and remarks:
- Table prices: maintained as in the past (see flyer).
- Entrance fee:
* 4 Euro for adults, allowing show and museums
visits for 2 days (Saturday, Sunday)
* Children under 12: free
* Those (non-registered dealers) who
exceptionally wish to visit the show rooms during
table installment on Friday afternoon must ask
for a special visit card (badge) and should pay a
discouraging 5 euro entrance fee.
- Number of tables:
It is still limited to about 55.
- New side-room:
A new side-room (salle Spiess, on the right
from the entrance) is basically devoted to
cultural activities and displays: MSB display
Mars window, Rocket display, Bookshop, some
material and hardware sale and the "Club Astro" table.
- Table reservation procedure.
Just write me! (mail is the most reliable
contact, phone is more tricky as I am not always there).
My mail: Zelimir <zelimir.gabel...@uha.fr>
- Table availability.
We still have free tables but I recommend you reserve right now (or asap)!
Important call to our former guests:
Those who did not yet send their traditional
"hello, please can you reserve my usual place ?",
are urgently encouraged to confirm (or cancel)
their wish to keep their usual tables at their
preferred place. In any case, because of some
slight differences changes in table arrangements,
the organizers reserve the right to possibly
change the layout of certain places.
So please hurry to reserve if you want to come
again, as we already have quite a number of newcomers on a waiting list!
- Table reservation:
Please, can all of you who already reserved,
CONFIRM me (by mail) your earlier made table
reservation? (Except those who already did so a few days ago).
Sorry for this trouble but it will greatly
facilitate my administrative task (far easier for
me to handle, and safer for you). A few words can do.
- Consignment room:
Some space in the consignment room is still
available, free of charge, for those, especially
guests coming from far away, who wish to sell
some of their meteorites (ideally about 5-15 pieces).
Just write labels and prices and leave the pieces
in the locked tables, with info on how you should
be contacted by potential customers during the
show. We will take care of your sales (all free, no commission).
Contact me personally.
- Show leaving by dealers:
For public's respect, dealers are kindly asked
NOT to leave the show tables before Sunday 16:00.
This is one of the rare restrictions we must
impose. Priority can be given to dealers who are able to fulfill this request.
Should you have a major problem with this, please contact me.
- Original drawings contest:
Those who can bring proof they are still under
age of 12 (administrative age because we ALL
have a mental age below 12!) and have an artist
soul (who hasnt ?), can propose us their best
drawings related to the theme Imagine Human Landing on Mars in 2025.
Yes, you can bring drawings from the young
artists from all over the world! Just a name
(signed painting) and age are needed to obtain a
reward (contest results & awards: Sunday 15:00)
As a (provisional) conclusion:
Needless to mention, the FUNNY (crazy ?),
friendly and ever smiling show ambience, that is
progressively acquiring an ever growing
reputation, is absolutely guaranteed again (by
YOUR simple presence) for this new 2010 blast.
Should this 10th show bring to all again much
meteorite passion, fun, faith and friendship!
Bring many nice stuff and/or have a happy hunting.
We hope the so called general crisis won't have
any bad influence on your sales (lower
euro/dollar for overseas dealers) or purchases
(European meteorites more affordable for US
collectors ?). A good puzzle for the next
Captain Bloods Market Trends report
My ever growing best wishes to all,
Zelimir
Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
Université de Haute Alsace
ENSCMu, Lab. GSEC,
3, Rue A. Werner,
F-68093 Mulhouse Cedex, France
Tel: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 94
Fax: +33 (0)3 89 33 68 15
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