How did the Moon form? It still remains something of a mystery. Now, a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience has given a new spin to this old debate. Back at the start of this century it all seemed sorted. Everyone agreed, or nearly everyone anyway, that our Moon was formed when the proto-Earth was…
It’s a bright, frosty Monday morning in late November and I’m sitting in the Berrill Café at the Open University, waiting for Graham. He is stuck in a bit of traffic on the A5. Eventually he makes it and we have a quick coffee and discuss plans for the coming week. Our aim is to…
Let’s face it, a meteorite dropping out of the sky and landing in your garden doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it’s a pretty uncommon event to say the least. You probably have more chance of winning the jackpot on the National Lottery than you have waking up one morning and finding a lump of…
The Earth is a very beautiful planet. If we hadn’t realised it before, this was made particularly clear in the images taken by Apollo astronauts. A blue and white jewel suspended in the immensity and darkness of space. But that beauty hides a violent past. To form a planet the size of Earth you need…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 