I am really looking forward to the chondrules workshop taking place tomorrow and Tuesday at the Natural History Museum, London. OK, so I have to get up at the crack of dawn to make it on time, but it’s worth it. The origin of chondrules is a central theme in meteorite science. Lots of work has…
How did the Moon form? It still remains something of a mystery. Now, a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience has given a new spin to this old debate. Back at the start of this century it all seemed sorted. Everyone agreed, or nearly everyone anyway, that our Moon was formed when the proto-Earth was…
It’s a bright, frosty Monday morning in late November and I’m sitting in the Berrill Café at the Open University, waiting for Graham. He is stuck in a bit of traffic on the A5. Eventually he makes it and we have a quick coffee and discuss plans for the coming week. Our aim is to…
Let’s face it, a meteorite dropping out of the sky and landing in your garden doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it’s a pretty uncommon event to say the least. You probably have more chance of winning the jackpot on the National Lottery than you have waking up one morning and finding a lump of…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 