Last week there were some exciting announcements from NASA about human exploration of the Moon. If all goes well the US may return an astronaut to the Moon’s surface sometime in 2027. That’s well in advance of China’s intention of putting people on the Moon in 2030. As in the 1960s, human space exploration seems…
The fall of a new meteorite is always a very exciting and unexpected event. They can land anywhere and do! The places that they pitch up in can sometimes be a little on the dull side. I am not sure Felix, Alabama is a wild and crazy tourist hotspot but it is a great meteorite…
Now, in the last post I mentioned our group’s weekly meeting. You missed it! It’s in the second paragraph, after all the stuff about poppy seeds and leopard spots. Anyway, I am happy to report that CRG is still going strong. What is CRG? It is the acronym for Cosmochemistry Research Group. When I started…
Last week NASA held a press conference to promote the publication of a paper in the scientific journal Nature about some odd, spotty rocks on Mars. The event was widely publicised. These strange blotchy features were found in Jezero crater by the Perseverance Rover. The lead author of the paper was Jeol Hurowitz of Stony…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 