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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. Chondrules: Big impacts, fast jets and heated discussions. Meteorite scientists are generally a happy, friendly bunch of people. They love nothing better than getting together at meetings and conferences to discuss their latest research results. The mood is always relaxed and laid-back, unless that is, someone brings up the difficult issue of chondrules. Then things can start to get dark and a bit…. February 19, 2015. Dealers in an Adventure with Scientists.
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. Last Friday I went to the Science Museum in South Kensington with my nine-year-old son. We were on a mission! It had all started a few weeks earlier when we had gone to see the new Transformers movie being filmed in Oxford. Watching a movie in the making is a lot of fun and we…. 2 weeks ago October 27, 2016. The spy, the meteorite and the lost city. February 22, 2014. Not so ordinary after all. British and Irish Meteorite Society. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Earth | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. The Mystery of Earth’s Lost Xenon. Compared to gases in primitive meteorites, Earth’s present day atmosphere is depleted in xenon. A new model, published in Nature, suggests that the mineral perovskite holds the key to understanding the riddle. Early last week I was contacted by Andy Extance, a journalist working for Chemistry World, who asked if I would be willing to…. October 15, 2012. Not so ordinary after all. British and Irish Meteorite Society.
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Mars | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. Moon and Mars – Media Stars. Glenelg in Scotland and on Mars. Our close planetary neighbours, the Moon and Mars, have been receiving a bit more coverage in the media lately. Well, OK, perhaps it’s not been an all-out deluge of publicity. Not really the journalistic equivalent of a feeding frenzy, I agree. But nonetheless, the news outlets…. October 24, 2012. Curiosity – Live from Mars. October 11, 2012. Tissint -Soil Science Martian Style. October 11, 2012.
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The Curious Case of the Train that Vanished | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. The Curious Case of the Train that Vanished. January 28, 2015. I think we can all agree that trains are pretty big things; they can’t just disappear without trace, surely? But that’s exactly what happened yesterday to the 10.50am service from Milton Keynes to Manchester Piccadilly. I was heading up with my colleague, Diane Johnson. Eager to be on our way, we scrutinised the big electronic departures board, but the service had completely vanished! Was one furt...
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The Lonely Spacecraft: Beagle 2 found | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. The Lonely Spacecraft: Beagle 2 found. January 20, 2015. Can a spacecraft be lonely? Beagle 2 on the surface of Mars, with solar panels partially deployed. Apollo 12 Astronaut Allan Bean inspects the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. January 20, 2015. A visit to Bushfield School. The Curious Case of the Train that Vanished →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Missions | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. In the world of cinema the sequel is generally never quite up to the original. Something is lost second time around. So what about space missions? Do the same rules apply? We are about to find out. The legendary NASA Dawn spacecraft is closing in on Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, having…. February 27, 2015. The Lonely Spacecraft: Beagle 2 found. Can a spacecraft be lonely? January 20, 2015. Blind Date – Rosetta closes in. July 29, 2014. At the ...
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Meteorites | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. It was a bit of a shock last week to find that the Open University had decided to go all festive. Christmas already! Not yet, surely? In the Berrill Cafe the staff are now wearing pixie hats, Santa is in his grotto and the air is filled with the sound of…. November 29, 2015. November 24, 2015. One quiet afternoon in Brazil. The stone turned out to be an ordinary chondrite, type LL3.2. Should we be interested? November 11, 2015. February 19, 2015.
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Blind Date – Rosetta closes in | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. Blind Date – Rosetta closes in. July 29, 2014. Recently the Rosetta spacecraft sent back some rather disturbing images of its target, the almost impossible to pronounce, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Instead of the nice potato shape that was expected, the Open University’s Dr Andrew Morse describes the comet as looking more like a rubber duck. The European Space Agency has released an animation of the comet. Will be launched from the orbiter and touch down...
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The virtual beauty of space rocks | Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier
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Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier. The virtual beauty of space rocks. February 4, 2015. What’s all the fuss about? They’re just boring old lumps of rock. Black or grey, rough or smooth, a rock is a rock! Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but meteorites are no ordinary rocks. They are the oldest objects you can handle. Some contain grains that predate our Solar System. And organic compounds that were probably formed in interstellar space. Well, not quite! But what about stones.