February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... focussed on developing new lunar and martian simulants, analysing Apollo regolith samples, and investigating the nature of meteorite impacts into lunar-like materials. Dr Caroline Smith is the Head of Earth Sciences Collections and Principal Curator...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... features in the unit represent a period in the martian climate where, in the millions of years between the two meteorite impacts, water turned to ice as temperatures plummeted. "The ocean level receded from its original shoreline to form a secondary...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... revealed this week that the hole was most likely a result of human error rather than a micro-meteorite impact. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency told Russian media he was not ruling anything out...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... fully knowing the structure that they pass through is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. The position of meteorite impacts on the other hand can be verified by overhead orbital imagery systems, so the data obtained from these quake...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...rock collections and co-curator of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna. He is also a researcher and has confirmed, together with different colleagues, three of the currently 189 recognised meteorite impact craters on Earth.
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...the increased pressure at the time of the Chelyabinsk meteorite impact In 2014, the authors of this article helped develop...methods were used to simulate the trajectory of the Chelyabinsk meteorite 60 days prior to its fall. Its trajectory was ...
