[meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from the sky: A heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science

From: karmaka <karmaka-meteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:37:49 +0100
Message-ID: <1RwBH3-0fA6uO0_at_fwd03.aul.t-online.de>

London tourists, don't forget the 'darling' of the British media this week, the spectacular new Tissint specimen, which is already on display in the
 
Green Zone's Vault Gallery of the NHM London:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/

Entry is free!
 
Have a nice weekend!
 
Martin
 


 
Von: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com>
 An: DIANE JOHNSON <dianejohnson100 at hotmail.com>
 Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
 Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from the sky: A heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science
 Datum: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:56:27 +0100
 
Hi Diane,
 
 Yes, that exhibition looks very interesting. A few members of BIMS
 (British & Irish Meteorite Society) are hoping to visit soon. Very
 interested in seeing the Danebury meteorite as well of course as the
 Lake House stone.
 
 Cheers
 
 Martin
 
 On 10/02/2012, DIANE JOHNSON wrote:
>
> It maybe of interest to those in or planning to visit the UK soon that for
> the first time ever the historic Danebury and Lake House meteorites are now
> on public display. They are part of a small exhibition at the Royal Society
> in London until March 30th 2012, viewing is free but by appointment
> only:http://royalsociety.org/news/Objects-in-Space-land-at-the-Royal-Society/
> Its a very interesting little exhibition, I would recommend a visit.Diane
>
> Diane Johnson
>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:50:55 +0000
>> From: msgmeteorites at gmail.com
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from
>> the sky: A heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please see the link below to a webcast of Professor Colin Pillingers
>> lecture to the Royal Society recently.
>>
>> (http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/stones-from-the-sky/)
>>
>> Professor Pillinger was the recipient of the Michael Faraday prize in
>> recognition of his excellence in communicating science. The lecture is
>> called 'Stones from the sky - A heaven sent opportunity to talk about
>> science' For those who dont know about Professor Pillinger, here is a
>> lowdown:
>>
>> 'Colin Pillinger is Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open
>> University. His research interests include designing unique
>> instruments to analyse extraterrestrial samples. During his forty year
>> career he has made more than a thousand contributions to scientific
>> literature, and also found time to be one of Britain's foremost
>> science communicators, contributing dozens of popular articles in
>> newspapers and magazines as well as giving hundreds of public
>> lectures. After analysing a number of meteorites from Mars and finding
>> tantalising evidence of the existence of life there, he conceived the
>> Beagle 2 mission to land on the Red Planet to confirm his discoveries.
>> Throughout the project he filled over thirty notebooks recording the
>> daily happenings which form the basis of his autobiographical account
>> of the mission - "My life on Mars". '
>>
>> Colin Pillinger is friends with Derek and Katrina Gray, the owners of
>> the Wold Cottage and has a particular interest in the Wold Cottage
>> meteorite and in Sir Edward Topham who was the owner of the land at
>> the time the meteorite fell. The webcast is an hour long but its worth
>> watching, a really good intro to the history of the study of
>> meteorites from a definite personality in the field.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> --
>> Martin Goff
>> www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
>> IMCA #3387
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