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…
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…
Dr Sasha Verchovsky and “Finesse”. Dr Verchovsky works in the Open University’s Department of Physical Sciences and made extensive measurements of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in Tissint using a high-sensitivity and high-precision mass spectrometer called “Finesse”. Dr Verchovsky’s analyses were able to show that Tissint contains traces of Martian atmosphere, as well as soil-like material…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 