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Comin' at you this #thinsectionthursday with a beautiful picture of the meteorite Shalka ☄️ . Shalka fell in November 1850 in West Bengal, India, with 4 kg of material found altogether. Shalka is a diogenite, a type of achondrite, meaning that it lacks chondrules and originated from a differentiated parent body. Diogenites are closely related to two other groups of achondrites: eucrites and howardites. Together, these are known as HED meteorites, which are all thought to originate from the asteroid 4 Vesta. Thanks to Mark Nottingham for the photo. Information from The Meteoritical Society. . #thinsection #geology #geologyrocks #space #spacerocks #meteorite #meteoritehunt #science #microscope #crystals #planetaryscience #asteroid #uom #manchester #mcrWell done to all group members who presented at the British Planetary Science Conference yesterday! 🚀🎉 . 1: Dr Rhian Jones speaking about halogen mobility in ordinary chondrite breccias. 2: 2nd year PhD student, Tom Harvey, talking about metal particles in the CBa chondrite, Gujba. 3: 3rd year PhD student, Aimee Smith, talking about formation conditions of chondrite rims. 4: 2nd year PhD student, Marissa Lo, on modelling magma ascent on the Moon. Thanks to the #BPSC2020 committee for a great conference so far! . #bpsc #planetaryscience #conference #PhD #research #space #spacerocks #meteorite #science #chondrite #experiment #geology #geologyrocks #volcanology #oxford #manchester #mcr #universityA belated happy new year everyone! 🎉 It's been a busy 2020 so far for group members who have been at the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group meeting 🌋 Here's final year PhD student, Zoltan Taracsak, presenting his work on the geochemistry of highly oxidised magmas from El Hierro. Thanks @vmsg_uk for another fantastic meeting! Photo credit to Ben Esse. . #VMSG20 #VMSG #volcanology #conference #magma #volcano #geology #geologyrocks #earthscience #earth #geo #geoscience #science #scientist #lava #igneousrocks #elhierro #canaryislands #PhD #university #uomSomething a little different to what we normally post: this is a plaster cast of the Appley Bridge meteorite! ☄️ The meteorite fell on the 13th October 1914 and landed in Appley Bridge, Wigan. A fireball, or bolide, was seen as the meteorite moved across the sky by several local people at the time. Thank you to David Gelsthorpe from @mcrmuseum for bringing this specimen over to our department. If you'd like to hear more about the Appley Bridge meteorite and what it's like to work as a museum curator, then please have a listen to the latest Cosmic Cast episode! 🔎 Search for The Cosmic Cast on YouTube or Spotify. . #manchester #mcr #university #uom #museum #curator #curation #appleybridge #meteorite #meteoritehunt #spacerocks #geology #geologyrocks #space #science #earthscience #geology #podcast #youtube #spotifyHappy #fieldworkfriday 🏞️ . Dr Katie Joy and Dr Romain Tartese are now at Halley Research Station, Antarctica. They have spent the last couple of days getting all of their equipment from Rothera via lots of plane journeys. Romain took this photo of the Theron Mountains during one of the flights. The cliffs of the Theron Mountains display sub-horizontal Jurassic (~180 million years old) basaltic lava flows, which are part of the Ferrar large igneous province, intruded into flat lying Permian (~250-300 million years old) continental sedimentary formations. Best of luck to the team who will be starting the meteorite search any day now! ❄️ . Photo and caption credit to Dr Romain Tartese. . #fieldwork #antarctica #southpole #ice #meteorite #meteoritehunt #space #spacerocks #geology #geologyrocks #britishantarcticsurvey #earth #manchester #mcr #university #uom #mountainsHappy #thinsectionthursday everyone! This is ALH88020, which was found in the Allan Hills area of Antarctica, back in 1988. It is classed as an ordinary chondrite since it contains chondrules, which are the circular grains you can see in this picture! Chondrules are thought to represent the oldest solid material in the Solar System. They formed as molten or partially molten droplets which accreted to form asteroids, so they can be thought of as the building blocks of our Solar System! Thanks to Dr Mark Nottingham for this photo. . #geology #geologyrocks #space #spacerocks #chondrite #chondrule #thinsection #microscope #meteorite #meteoritehunt #antarctica #research #manchester #mcr #university #uomEarth and Solar System on YouTube
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