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…
Figure skating is, of course, the best known example of angular momentum at work. A spinning skater rotates more slowly as they extend their arms and more rapidly as they bring their arms closer in. It works the same way for the Earth-Moon system. Now here is the important question: has the angular momentum…
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…
It always makes for a great movie. The lonely scientist in his white coat, working alone in his lab late into the night. There he is, mixing crazy coloured chemicals as part of an insane quest to find some sort of secret elixir. Like Alec Guinness in The Man in the White Suit, or Spencer…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 