Venus is not a nice place to visit. It rains sulphuric acid and has a surface temperature of approximately 465 degrees centigrade. Add to that a spacecraft crushing atmospheric pressure of about 90 times greater than that on Earth and you get the picture. Venus is never going to be a holiday destination! But it…
This summer I went on holiday to Chamonix in France. It’s a wonderful place, with spectacular views of the Mont Blanc and surrounding peaks. It was not my first visit. I came here first in 1986 and have been back many times since. A highlight of any visit to Chamonix is to take the funicular…
There was recently a story in the UK news about a billionaire who was filling his pond using tap water delivered by tankers. The locals were not happy. We have a water shortage here in the UK at the moment and so you can’t use your garden hose to irrigate your garden. Not that you…
Last year my book: A Meteorite Killed My Cow came out. It was an attempt to make meteorite science a bit more accessible to a general audience. Obviously one likes to see how things are going, so I did a Google Search on “meteorite books”. No sign of it, not a sniff! So, I thought…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 