Been there, done that. #SpaceRocks Broke my collar bone on the fall. #RangerBob

https://youtu.be/Np-HunIRrgE

The Whitecourt Crater #SpaceRocks

https://youtu.be/cIhRbT5-G6c

@markmccaughrean It was the last thing I was expecting to find when browsing the ESA socials (for work) today, as I had missed your note in here. such a lovely discovery! it will be my first time seeing MO since 2010 when I saw them in AMS w/ #Efterklang & it’ll be my first time seeing you present (and attending a #SpaceRocks related event!)

Typo of the day from an ESA management meeting 😎

“February multi-year planning ongoing for 2023 with only slight increase with respect to 2022 actuals – also bassline for the internal cost review.”

#SpaceRocks 🖖🤘🎸

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix

Spacerocks:
🎵 Almost Transparent Blue

#Spacerocks

https://open.spotify.com/track/5QrWvBB0tHeNuVNJxXze0E

https://invisible-inc.bandcamp.com/track/almost-transparent-blue-2

For #MeteoriteMonday, I present this fresh example of the Oum Dreyga meteorite.

On October 16, 2003, Moroccan soldiers witnessed a fireball over the Western Sahara. They recovered #meteorites from the fall, which were analyzed and classified as H3-5 chondrites.

Example shown weighs 11 grams and is from the Galactic Stone & Ironworks Collection. Not for sale.

#PlanetaryScience #GeologyRocks #SpaceRocks #Meteoritics #Science

Love me some #SpaceRocks In fact,
I even own a couple fragments of the #Chelyabysynk #Meteorite as well shown in this film. #Astronomy #itscomingstraightforus #MARSDENSK #Pilsner #Beer

https://youtu.be/UTZvjSeRjH8

For #MeteoriteMonday and #MineralMonday, I present the NWA 11273 #meteorite.

NWA 11273 is a lunar feldspathic breccia that was blasted off the surface of the #Moon by an ancient asteroid impact.

The ejected material then fell to Earth as #meteorites. Nomads in the Algerian Sahara recovered the meteorites, which were then analyzed by scientists at the University of Washington.

MetBull link - https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=66064

#PlanetaryScience #Geology #Meteoritics #GeologyRocks #SpaceRocks

Good to get over to the Boerderij in Zoetermeer last night to see my pal John Mitchell (@lordconnaught@twitter.com) in his guise as Lonely Robot, supported by fellow Frost* band mate Craig Blundell & friends 🎸

Considering that most of our spacecraft are de facto lonely robots, it made perfect sense for John et al. to headline act at our first #SpaceRocks event in London in 2018 🖖🙂🤘

So, what on earth do I have in common with Icelandic Eurovision legend Daði Freyr? 🧐

Well, it’s more a matter of “what in a persistent massively multiplayer online role playing space exploration game?” 🙂

We’ll both be on stage at this year’s EVE Online Fanfest in Reykjavik in September, Daði singing & me talking about #JWST 🚀🛰️🔭

Perhaps together 🖖😎🤘

#Astrodon #Iceland #SpaceRocks

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/special-guests-and-events-at-fanfest-2023

For #MeteoriteMonday, I present the NWA 791 #meteorite.

NWA 791 is a L5 chondrite recovered out of the Moroccan Sahara in 2001.

The NASA Ames Vertical Gun research team used this meteorite as a test target for high speed projectiles to better understand the impact dynamics of asteroid-like materials.

This specimen is a 9-gram slice that resides in the Galactic Stone & Ironworks collection.

#PlanetaryScience #SpaceRocks #GeologyRocks #Meteoritics
#MineralMonday

As ever, I am the Bilbo to his Gandalf 🧙‍♂️

Excellent to have the chance to meet with my #SpaceRocks partner, @alexandermilas at Waterloo, me on my way the the south coast & he just having returned from Buenos Aires.

And equally excellent to be able to hand him copies of the British Interplanetary Society’s Sir Arthur Clarke Award we won for Space Rocks in 2019, kindly delivered to #AstroFest2023 today by Alistair Scott.

The arrangement was kind of inevitable🖖😎🤘

#SpinalTap #Astrodon

In this case, it's "meteorwrongs".

I wish I had a shiny nickel for every slag and terrestrial breccia I have seen offered for sale as "meteorites".

I would have $420 even.

#GeologyRocks #SpaceRocks #meteorites #meteorwrongs

For #ThinSectionThursday, I present the NWA 4910 #meteorite, also known as the "Begaa" meteorite.

This meteorite was recovered from the Sahara near Begaa Morocco in 1999. It was analyzed and officially classified as a LL3.1 chondrite. It is rich in chondrules of all types.

Photo credit : Unknown. Reply or DM for credit or removal.

#PlanetaryScience #Meteoritics #GeologyRocks #SpaceRocks #ThinSection

What is it?

Or, I guess I should say What are they?

Clues : they are meteorite-related and extremely rare. Not only is the type of specimen very rare, but the material itself is quite rare.

So, to recap : a rare form of a rare type of meteorite-related material.

I will post the answer later this week after they arrive in the mail.

#WhatIsIt #GeologyRocks #SpaceRocks #PlanetaryScience #Meteoritics

RT @esa@twitter.com

Hey @esaoperations@twitter.com, have you typed 'meteorite' into @Google@twitter.com yet? Wait for it... 😉

#PlanetaryDefence #Spacerocks

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/esa/status/1612378271978586112

For #ThinSectionThursday I present the NWA 1950 Martian #meteorite.

The NWA 1950 meteorite was recovered from the Atlas mountains of Morocco in 2001. It was analyzed by French scientists and classified as a "lherzolitic shergottite" of Martian origin.

Photo credit : Unknown, reply or DM for credit or removal.

#PlanetaryScience #meteoritics #GeologyRocks #SpaceRocks

#geology
#geologyrocks
#mineralmonday
#meteoritemonday
#spacerocks
#thinsectionthursday

There are some others that slip my mind at the moment. 😀

#geology
#geologyrocks
#mineralmonday
#meteoritemonday
#spacerocks
#thinsectionthursday

There are some others that slip my mind at the moment. 😀

guys. this is really dope

check out these space rocks:
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/astromaterials3d/

#space #spacerocks #nasa