(Image: Wikipedia/Prescott) Back at the end of July two cricket fans were enjoying a pint watching Sussex play Middlesex at Uxbridge when they spotted a rock hurtling towards them. It hit the ground close by, fragmented and a portion bounced up and hit one of these startled witnesses in the chest. The story rapidly gained…

  Hunting for Fragments of the Gebel Kamil meteorite SW Egypt. The 45m diameter Kamil crater was originally located by Vincenzo de Michele using Google Earth satellite imagery. Approximately 1600 kg of iron meteorite fragments were located during joint Italian-Egyptian expeditions in 2009 and 2010 led by Dr Luigi Folco. Dr Folco, who did his…

The Hoba iron meteorite was found in 1920 in Namibia. The single slab-like mass measures 2.7m x 2.7m x 0.9m and weighs in excess of 60 tons. Due to its large mass it has never been moved from its original site. It is the largest single intact meteorite in the world. (image: wikipedia) Experts can…

Venus (left) and Mercury (right) (images courtesy of NASA) A little while back, we had a fascinating talk from Professor Albert Jambon (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) about a strange group of meteorites known as angrites. Now, you might wonder how one group of meteorites can be any more exotic than another. But angrites…