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 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. via Zoom within the exhibit space.

Visit the exhibit and complete a trivia quiz to enter a raffle for a chance to win a certificate to redeem at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s H-E-B Planetarium, graciously gifted by the South Texas Science Space Institute at UTRGV.

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.