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It is that time of year again, when Planetary Scientists across the globe are frantically finishing off preparing talks, printing posters, digging out poster tubes, and packing their suitcases to head to Houston for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference … Continue reading
A fireball captured on cameras in the early hours of Thursday 14th April may have dropped a meteorite near Shrewsbury. Over the Easter bank holiday weekend scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFall) led a the search of the area … Continue reading
Its conference time again! The last in-person Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) was back in 2019, which now seems a lifetime ago, no-one had even heard the word Covid-19. In March 2020, people were busy preparing talks and posters, … Continue reading
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This post was written by Rhian Jones. ********** In the early days of the Solar System, 4.6 billion years ago, the new Sun was surrounded by a disk of gas and dust called the Solar Nebula. Current models for formation … Continue reading
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Our Solar System is thought to have formed from a cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula that collapsed under its own gravity about 4 and a half billion years ago. In order to understand exactly how the … Continue reading
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What is your favourite space mission? We’re hosting #MissionCup2021 over on our @EarthSolarSystm Twitter account from Thursday 4th Feb. Join us to vote for your favourites from midday each day, and help choose which mission will be crowned champion. T-8 … Continue reading
Zircons (tiny crystals of ZrSiO4) are found in many rocks and are widely used to measure the age of rocks. This is usually done by looking at uranium-lead (U-Pb) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) ages, both of which rely on radioactive decay … Continue reading
I’m not really a morning person. After being woken by the alarm every morning during the week, I usually like a bit of a lie in on a Saturday morning. But not yesterday morning, yesterday I was up even earlier … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Jonathan Lewis who has won the 2019 Nininger Meteorite Award for student research papers. The award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences, as embodied by an original research paper. Jonathan completed his PhD at the University of … Continue reading
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