How To Embed Practically Anything On Your Blog or Website - from mashable.com. Also, I show you one of my coolest virtual (not finalized yet) maxicards, with the 2006 Austrian stamp that has REAL METEORITE DUST EMBEDDED in it!!! Also, their official FDC with that stamp!

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Now, look at the famous meteorite dust stamp from Austria Post, one of my most favorite postal administrations in terms of innovation and open-mindedness.
I only wish they would not force us to buy a minimum of 100 stamps, if we want to buy personalized stamps.
Too expensive! Learn from zazzle.com, etc., who asks only for 20 personalized stamps as a minimum!

"Post from Another World

The ground meteorite has been applied to the stamp by the Austrian State Printing Company using a method specially developed for this purpose. 

The meteorite was first examined by the Vienna Natural History Museum, an institution that has acquired an excellent international reputation through over 200 years of collecting and investigating meteorites, and identified as being H-chondrite (a stone meteorite, subgroup of “ordinary chondrite”). 

The Vienna Natural History Museum’s examination provides proof beyond doubt that an original meteorite has been used for the stamp. 

The meteorite most probably originated from the Asteroid Belt, an accumulation of hundreds of thousands of chunks of stone, ranging in size from gravel stones to mountains, that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter (at an orbital radius around three times the distance between the earth and the sun).

The chemical composition of the mineral olivine (stated as Fa18) is typical of this kind of meteorite, and can be verified by examining the meteorite dust on the stamp. 

The chemical and physical properties of the meteorite examined, like all other meteorites, are such that they constitute no risk to human health. 

The part of the roughly 19 kg meteorite that was not required for the production of the stamp has been deposited as a reference sample at the Vienna Natural History Museum, where it is on display."

http://www.post.at/eshop/philatelieshop/detail.php?prod=206040#

You can still buy the stamp or the cover, I guess!

Here's a cool protective jacket for that stamp.

Stamp in the jacket, then into a plastic sleeve.

The official FDC (First Day Cover).

My virtual maximum card, where I temporarily superimposed the stamp onto a composite, cosmos commercial postcard.

Postmark could be acquired in the future, but I'm in no hurry.

I like it as it is - a cosmic dorincard, with no nearby post office to give the postmark...:)

Or, I could electronically superimpose the image of the postmarked stamp from the FDC (see above).

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