Another what is it.

[JamesT]

What is this? Just one clue:

It was not taken in the UK - in fact I doubt if there is one in the UK.

[ChrisLumix]

Giant Hardon Collider?

[Black Pearl]

Rocket engine?

[JamesT]

Black Pearl has it :-)

Bonus for $0.00 - what sort?

[Black Pearl]

Bright sunshine so something NASA?

[JamesT]

19 hours ago, jtappin said:

Bonus for $0.00 - what sort?

Asking a bit much I know. I wondered if the scale from the corrosion would give away the size of the beast.

It is a Rocketdyne-F1, the power unit in the first stage of the Saturn-V at the Alamogordo Space History Museum. The extended nozzle is detached, and a few yards away.

Here are a couple of more conventional views:

Actually I expected it to be a bit bigger.

There was also a British rocket on site at the time (Feb 2013) on a fundraising tour I think.