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

From: John.L.Cabassi <John_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:01:48 -0800
Message-ID: <99BD7E282F5443C185780595A247F3A8_at_anitak9bz49jy2>

G'Day Martin and List
I finally got a chance to watch this. I was very impressed even though
it was an hour plus long, well worth it.

Thank you for sharing that.

John Cabassi
IMCA #2125

 


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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

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Martin Goff
www.msg-meteorites.co.uk
IMCA #3387
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Received on Sun 12 Feb 2012 08:01:48 PM PST