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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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This post was written by Prof Jamie Gilmour We understand that systems of planets form alongside their parent stars. Part of a rotating cloud of gas and dust collapses to form a rotating disk. Most of the material is eventually … Continue reading
This blog post was written by The Planetary Science team in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. ————— Every three years our group applies to the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for funds to support our research. As … Continue reading
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The Barwell meteorite is the largest British meteorite. It was seen to fall over Leicestershire on Christmas eve (24th December) 1965, and a total mass of 44 kg has been recovered. The interesting thing about Barwell is that it contains … Continue reading
If you remember my old blog from almost two years ago about chondrule formation when you might not be surprised that we had some more of the “entertaining” discussions this morning. The chondrule session was on and they scheduled the … Continue reading
Yesterday’s chondrule session has seen some heated discussions about the formation of chondrules. There seem to be two opposing sides which don’t agree with each other at all and a lot of neutral people are thinking that a mixture of … Continue reading
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