Tragic meteorite encounter in DC?
Spotted over the holiday period in Washington DC by my friend Mark Errington. This tragic meteorite incident seems to have gone unreported by the international media. Surely some mistake! HAPPY NEW YEAR
A big splash! – water and the giant impact
It is now widely accepted that the Moon formed as the result of a collision between two planet-sized objects. An event generally referred to as the giant impact. But that’s more or less where the consensus ends. There is currently little agreement on the relative size of the colliding bodies or the energy of the…
In the Arctic heading for Antarctica
Some very positive news on the BBC website last week concerning the project to find buried iron meteorites in Antarctica. The team, led by Geoff Evatt of the University of Manchester, have been testing their detection equipment at the Ny-Alesund research base in Svalbard. It sounds as if real progress has been made and all…
Our new research article on the oxygen isotope composition of the Earth-Moon system
Our study of the oxygen isotope composition of the Earth and Moon has just been published in Science Advances It is Open Access so you can download the full paper here: Greenwood et al. 2018 Here is the link to a short video about the research: There is a short summary article on the Open…
Meteorites: The Blog from the Final Frontier 