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Wasn't old enough to drink the last time Ipswich Town were in the top league. Might need a few beers to get through the next couple of hours... #MCIIPS

Congratulations to Luke Daly for being awarded the Max Hey medal from the MineralogicalSociety at last week's #EMC2024 meeting. Accepted with some very wise words about work-life balance & making sure you enjoy the research!

🚨☄️ LOOK UP: If you happen to be near Luzon in the Philippines, in about seven hours, a small meteor will explode (harmlessly) in the skies above you. Should make a beautiful streak in the night sky. This is only the 9th time an Earthbound meteor has been found prior to impact.

Compilation of videos from the Philippines of the 1 metre asteroid 2024 RW1 burning up. It’s just the ninth incoming asteroid to be detected before atmospheric entry bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c0…

The 3D shapes of fractures and veins observed in Ryugu samples indicate formation by freeze-thaw, hinting that the melting and freezing of ice control the flow of water and the extent of hydration in asteroids up to 300 km in size. Matthew Genge et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

The differences in estimated and measured Ryugu organic matter abundances may result from the surface organic matter distribution, or porosity, or from differences between the observation geometries employed by such studies. Potiszil et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155… Phesant Memorial Laboratory (PML)

If you enjoyed Solar System this evening you may be pleased to know the next episode begins in Winchcombe.

Come and join us Earth and Solar System Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester - we have funded planetary sample PhD studentships advertised for a Sept 2025 intake ees.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Stunning images of the recent aurora events captured by our #fireball cameras at @EarthSolarSystem RHUL Earth Sciences, processed by Andy Smedley SCAMP - a component of the FRIPON network & UK Fireball Alliance cameras monitor the sky, helping us to learn about the formation of the Solar System and recover #meteorites

Extraterrestrial life? Evidence of micro-organisms in returned sample of asteroid Ryugu is explained by terrestrial contamination and colonisation - NHM Meteorites and collaborators look at the evidence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ma…

Reports of a bright, blue-green fireball over the UK tonight around 7:30pm. Sightings from Aberdeenshire down to Surrey. If you saw or recorded something please submit a report/footage to: ukmon.imo.net/members/imo/re…. UK Fireball Alliance

Oued Chebeika 002 is the first CI chondrite "find"! Until now, all CIs have been "falls". This is interesting as the porous nature of CIs implies rapid desctruction through weathering. CIs are interesting due to their chemical primitivity, plus are analogous to asteroid Ryugu! ☄️

Ashfall from an ancient volcano has been discovered at the new Mars rover landing site! 🌋 Scientists believe the ash was likely preserved because it landed in craters that were once filled with water. 💧 Find out more about this remarkable discovery 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

I am happy to announce the publication of the final part of my The Open University PhD work, which has been expanded during my UK Space Agency postdoc Natural History Museum: "Dichotomy retreat and aqueous alteration on Noachian Mars recorded in highland remnants”, in Nature Geoscience.

Listen in for science results from the asteroid sample returned to Earth by our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA leaders and other experts will speak at a live teleconference at 11am ET (1600 UTC) on Wednesday, Jan. 29: go.nasa.gov/40uZfDl

On Wed., Jan 29th at 11am ET, mission experts and I will share an update on science results from the #OSIRISREx mission, which delivered a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. More details: go.nasa.gov/40PvwGE

Rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth: amino acids and nucleobases. They also carry ammonia that formed billions of years ago in cold, distant regions of our Solar System. Daniel Glavin et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Fun results on the mineralogy of asteroid #Bennu led by NHM Meteorites Science at the Natural History Museum nature.com/articles/s4158…

Bennu had some of the vital components needed for life to develop! 😮 Asteroids like Bennu may have helped deliver the water and chemical building blocks that ultimately led to the evolution of life on Earth. 🌱 Find out more about this discovery 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

The Museum has one of the oldest meteorite collections in the world ☄️ Museum Scientist, Sara Russell is part of the NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team who have just published two papers analysing the sample return from asteroid Bennu. #MeteoriteMonday NHM Meteorites