10/27/17 - Boston, Massachusetts  A pumpkin is launched from the roof of the Metcalfe Science Center during the Annual Pumpkin Drop hosted by BU Physics Dept. on Friday, October 27, 2017.   Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
October 31, 2017
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Pumpkin Drop

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a…Pumpkin! Not a Superpumpkin, as the audience below could attest when the squashed squash splattered into hundreds of pulpy pieces after plunging from the roof of the Metcalf Science Center Friday. During the world-famous (well, BU-famous anyway) annual physics department Pumpkin Drop, the gargantuan gourds filled with various substances are dropped in the name of science. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi