For a short time I had a job working for a geophysical exploration company based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It was a pretty dull occupation, running data crunching programs in a sort of air-conditioned Nissen hut. I was looking forward to leaving and taking up a place on a M.Sc. geology course in Canada, when news…
To the outside world science can seem to be full of unanswered questions. “More research needed” are the usual last words on a host of unsolved mysteries. So sometimes it’s great to have a few certainties, like for example, well, how the Moon was formed. Of course it was all down to a Mars-sized planet…
The chances of anything coming from Mars are… well quite low, as the song says. So Martian meteorites do tend to get a lot of attention, but none more so than NWA 7034. As discussed in a recent post on my research blog, this new meteorite has an oxygen isotope composition that is very…
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…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 