Muawia Shaddad (center right) and Peter Jenniskens (center left) point towards a fragment of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, in the company of several students from the University of Khartoum. (Image: Peter Jenniskens/SETI institute). Almahata Sitta arrived on Earth with a bang. It was the first recovered meteorite to be tracked in space (as Asteroid 2008…
Image: Estelle Greenwood OK, so you’ve got this idea for a Sci-Fi movie: Scene one: A lonely Arizona astronomer locates a small asteroid. He finds that it is going to collide with Earth within hours. Scene two: Across the globe, frantic astronomers launch a desperate attempt to find out as much as they can about…
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the way to the launch of Vostok 1 0n 12 April 1961. Gagarin’s flight lasted just under two hours and he made one orbit of the Earth. (Image: NASA) Well, here we are at the start of 2011. While it looks like being a fairly tough year, there is still plenty…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 