Comet Hartley 2 imaged by the Deep Impact spacecraft on 4th November 2010. This highly active comet is the subject of a special session at this year’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. (Image: NASA) You might notice an increase in the number of space-related stories in the media over the next week or so. The…
Devastation caused by the explosion of a meteroid at low altitude in the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908. (Imge: Wikipedia) Every Thursday lunchtime here at the Open University, a small band of enthusiasts meet up to discuss, well, just about anything really, but mainly meteorites. Of course, the group has a nice official title:…
Muawia Shaddad (center right) and Peter Jenniskens (center left) point towards a fragment of the Almahata Sitta meteorite, in the company of several students from the University of Khartoum. (Image: Peter Jenniskens/SETI institute). Almahata Sitta arrived on Earth with a bang. It was the first recovered meteorite to be tracked in space (as Asteroid 2008…
Image: Estelle Greenwood OK, so you’ve got this idea for a Sci-Fi movie: Scene one: A lonely Arizona astronomer locates a small asteroid. He finds that it is going to collide with Earth within hours. Scene two: Across the globe, frantic astronomers launch a desperate attempt to find out as much as they can about…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 