The Coimbra practice of João Branco and Paula del Rio was commissioned to reconfigure the tourist office and Praça Cónego Manuel Fernandes Nogueira The schist houses of this village in the Açor mountain range are spread out between steep narrow streets on a northwest-facing escarpment the silent intervention makes it difficult to distinguish between new and old on this square of the lower part of Piódão – previously occupied by cars – which serves as the main entrance into the village The project has reclaimed the space for pedestrians as a place for them to gather and socialize in A grid of native cherry trees at the entrance alters the arrival sequence This botanical filter protects the square by separating it from the roadway the new paving was executed with pieces of shale and with no slopes and curves was tackled by introducing a large central circle along the church’s axis the project included renovating the tourist office building on the south side Unnecessary elements were eliminated inside and out Its porches were built with metal columns and wooden beams The square and tourist office of Piódão is in the shortlist for the Emerging Architecture section of the 2024 Mies van der Rohe Awards. there arent any match using your search terms Fragments of one of the largest asteroids in the solar system recovered by researchers in Amazonia a fireball crossed the sky from northeast to southwest and exploded with a boom that was heard for miles around The meteorite broke apart and fell to the ground in the village of Serra Pelada in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Pará Some residents collected pieces that fell near a school; one 5.4-kilogram (kg) fragment fell on the premises of a mining company and was collected by an electrician had an idea about what the rock was and contacted meteorite specialist Maria Elizabeth Zucolotto a researcher at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Studies conducted by researchers from the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo indicated that it was a rare type of meteorite that probably broke apart from Vesta one of the largest and brightest asteroids in the solar system Vespa is part of the asteroid belt located roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter “Asteroid collisions can cause pieces to break off and enter into orbit around the Sun,” says astronomer Thais Mothé Diniz who studied meteorites at UFRJ’s Valongo Observatory and is currently a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Alesund which is when they become known as meteors.” When they reach the surface of the planet is a basaltic rock primarily composed of two minerals—feldspar and silicates—known as pyroxenes as well as lower volumes of quartz and apatite as described in an article published in the journal Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Science) in February 2018 the Serra Pelada meteorite entered Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of somewhere between 11 and 70 km per second As it was slowed down by friction with the air But only two pieces were recovered—many others Zucolotto’s study reinforces the hypothesis that the meteorite came from Vesta based on the unique chemical composition of the asteroid It was the first recorded meteorite to have landed in Amazonia and is the third Vesta fragment to have been collected in Brazil which weighed about 1.8 kg and fell in the municipality of Alagoinha which weighed about 2.5 kg and fell in the municipality of Martinho Campos The largest meteorite ever found in Brazil is the Bendego which was discovered in the state of Bahia in 1784 74 meteorites have been identified in Brazil “Meteorites are composed of the remnants of what formed our solar system They are important pieces in the puzzle of how the planets formed and evolved offering samples of the bodies from which they originated retain the same composition as they had 4.56 billion years ago dating back to the origin of the solar system,” says Zucolotto When Rocha called to tell her about the event Zucolotto was searching for fragments of another meteorite in Palmas de Monte Alto She changed her plans and traveled immediately to the village of Serra Pelada where she and collector André Moutinho began looking for traces of the rock met members of the Landless Workers’ Movement in Eldorado dos Carajás and travelled along isolated stretches of the Trans-Amazonian Highway and they knew that the 5.4 kg piece they came for had already been sold to a foreign buyer the Friends of the National Museum Society provides funding to support these purchases,” she says Zucolotto has experience hunting meteorites she helped track down two Americans who had stolen a very rare type of meteorite from the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro fell in the municipality of Angra dos Reis in 1869 and the thieves replaced it with a worthless replica The Angrito is one of the oldest rock types in the solar system with only 28 confirmed specimens in the world The switch was quickly noticed and the meteorite recovered with the help of the Federal Police at Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro the Angrito had a high commercial value because of its rarity but a very similar meteorite weighing 40 kg was recently found in Argentina causing its value to plummet,” she says the meteorite could have been worth as much as US$3.5 million to collectors Scientific article ZUCOLOTTO, M. E. et al. Serra Pelada: The first Amazonian meteorite fall is a eucrite (basalt) from asteroid 4-Vesta © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved.