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This post follows a week of activities hosted by planetary science PhD students Peter Mc Ardle and Megan Hammett for a selection of sixth form students – from Greater Manchester and the surrounding areas – as part of the In2Science … Continue reading
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Yesterday – on the hottest day of the 2022 – we had first light on our 360 degree all sky meteor observation camera deployed at the Jodrell Bank observatory site in Cheshire, UK. The new camera is the 2nd that … 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
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Most of us in the group study meteorites, and you can get a bit obsessed with these cool space rocks! It’s easy to get lost in meteorite classifications, so I’ll try to keep things simple in the following. First, we … Continue reading
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Hi, my name is Helen and I’m the newest PhD student to join the research group here in Manchester. My project involves trying to understand how rocky planets such as our own came to have such large quantities of carbon, … Continue reading
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In October 2017 Katherine Joy and Romain Tartese from the DEES Isotope Group joined a joint French-Chilean led expedition to the Atacama desert in Chile to search and recover meteorites that will be used for scientific analysis. You can read … 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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With a total mass of ~650 grams, the meteorites Graves Nunataks (GRA) 06128 and 06129 are two large paired stones found by the US ANSMET team during the 2006 season in the Graves Nunataks area of the Transantarctic Mountains. The … Continue reading
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Over the past few months, 3 PhD students have joined our research group. Read on to see what projects they’ll be working on during the next 3 years and to find out about upcoming PhD projects starting in 2019. Marissa … Continue reading
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