Meteorites: A journey through space and time

[David Entwistle]

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Meteorites: A journey through space and time

How did the solar system form? What are the origins of life on Earth? Are we alone in the universe? Find out at this talk at Imperial Festival.

Date: 10 May 2014
Time: 16:00 - 16:45
Venue: G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
Campus: South Kensington Campus
Speakers: Dr Zita Martins and Dr Caroline Smith

Related Faculty: Engineering, Natural Sciences
Audience: Open to all

Event type: Lecture
Ticket: Drop in

How did the solar system form? What are the origins of life on Earth? Are we alone in the universe? Join curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, Dr Caroline Smith and Imperial College Astrobiologist Dr Zita Martins to find out how meteorites can help to answer these fundamental questions.

Dr Zita Martins is a Royal Society Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial College, London. Her research involves analysing the organic components of meteorites.

Dr Caroline Smith is curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum. She manages and cares for the nearly 2000 meteorites represented in NHM meteorite collection. Dr Smith liaises with scientific and curatorial colleagues around the world to organise loans of material from our collection for scientific study and exhibition. She also represents the Museum in various media and public outreach initiatives regarding meteorites and the scientific study of our Solar System.

[David Entwistle]

[Edited to add a few details 01/06/14]

This talk is now available on onlne. See here for the link from Imperial College London's web site, or here for the direct link to youtube.

Join curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, Dr Caroline Smith and Imperial College Astrobiologist Dr Zita Martins to find out how meteorites can help to answer fundamental questions.

You can see a video of Dr Zita Martin's work here.

Dr Zita Martins (Department of Earth Science & Engineering) discusses her research into meteorites, and the possibility of finding life on the Red Planet.

[msg-meteorites]

Thanks David, just watched the youtube clip. An interesting talk about the basics. Shame they cut the video off before the Q and A session but otherwise a good watch

Cheers

Martin

[Barwellian]

Yes watched it...a few interesting snippets, but a shame the images they were discussing were not shown.
Thanks for the links David.
G