Spotted over the holiday period in Washington DC by my friend Mark Errington. This tragic meteorite incident seems to have gone unreported by the international media. Surely some mistake! HAPPY NEW YEAR

Some very positive news on the BBC website last week concerning the project to find buried iron meteorites in Antarctica. The team, led by Geoff Evatt of the University of Manchester, have been testing their detection equipment at the Ny-Alesund research base in Svalbard. It sounds as if real progress has been made and all…

We have to get this sorted. One website claims that the only meteorite casualty in recent times was that celebrated dog, killed in Nakhla,Egypt in 1911. Another website says that the only known meteorite fatality was a cow in Valera, Venezuela in 1972. Even if both are correct, it suggests that you shouldn’t rush to…

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…