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Mystery of the Barwell Meteorite

Postby David Entwistle » Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:24 pm

Hi,

Not sure if this video is new, or not. I haven't seen it before ...

Mystery of the Barwell Meteorite

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system.

On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over the Leicestershire village of Barwell. It remains the largest meteorite fall observed in Britain.

Natasha Almeida, Assistant Meteorite Curator at the Museum, has been researching fragments from the Barwell meteorite held in the Natural History Museum's world-renowned meteorite collection.

Join Natasha as she shows science communicator Camilla Tham one of the fragments, and explores the hidden pebble that changed the way we think about how our solar system formed.


The paper detailing the NHM's X-ray micro-computed tomography work was presented at 77th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2014) and is available here.
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Re: Mystery of the Barwell Meteorite

Postby Barwellian » Sun Jan 03, 2016 2:50 am

Interesting Dave...I've not seen this and I think it's new...I met Natasha down at the Barwell workshop day they had there in November...she was telling me about her research and the tomography...she was organizing the display and added my Barwell sample to the cabinet for the day, alongside the very one in this video...we discussed the possibility of doing tomography on my 139g sample...not sure that will happen though. Was an interesting day.

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