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

From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:56:27 +0000
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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 <dianejohnson100 at hotmail.com> 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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