There’s no doubt that the explosion of the Chelyabinsk fireball over the southern Urals on 15th February has changed forever our once cuddly view of meteorite falls. Well, it has changed mine anyway. Of course there have been previous reports of meteorites doing nasty things, usually to pets and cattle it would seem. A dog…
Sometimes life can be very frustrating! Just when you thought you had it all figured out, along comes a new sample and everything changes. It’s so annoying, isn’t it? Well no, actually that’s the fun thing about studying meteorites. You just never know what’s around the corner. So, now we have a new meteorite sample…
Figure skating is, of course, the best known example of angular momentum at work. A spinning skater rotates more slowly as they extend their arms and more rapidly as they bring their arms closer in. It works the same way for the Earth-Moon system. Now here is the important question: has the angular momentum…
How things have changed! Way back when, I started this blog off with an entry that suggested you should never bring up the subject of meteorites in polite, social conversation for fear of being thought of as, well, a bit boring, or perhaps worse! But that was back in the days before the so-called…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 