Meteorites have fascinated humans for thousands of years. Here our chosmochemist Tim Gregory and Collections Manager Claudia Hildebrandt restore an iron meteorite from our University of Bristol Earth Sciences collection and talk you through the history and science of this famous meteorite from South America.
Did you know that scientists at the University of Bristol research rocks from outer space? One of the highlights was the work Bristol scientists did on the moon samples. hey came back from the Apollo mission and arrived in Bristol on 23rd October 1969. Our Head of School Rich Pancost’s summarises the sense of excitement and the work done at the time in this Twitter thread.
Y’all! A thread about the #Apollo50th lunar samples and the search for life. Adapted from a presentation by @ogu_bristol founder Geoff Eglinton, who led the search for biomolecules. Team included him, J Maxwell, C Pillinger, John Hayes and others!https://t.co/TrFPRTOPMr …
— Rich Pancost (@rpancost) July 20, 2019
