Podcasts about meteoritics

Space Nuts Episode: Ryugu's Microbial Mystery, Martian Moon Origins, and Galactic CollisionsJoin Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson as they explore the latest cosmic revelations. From unexpected microbial contamination of Richie asteroid samples to a groundbreaking theory on the formation of Mars's moons, and the first results from a new instrument on the William Herschel Telescope, this episode is packed with stellar insights and astronomical wonders.Episode Highlights:- Richie Asteroid Contamination: Delve into the challenges of keeping extraterrestrial samples free from Earth's microbes. Despite stringent sterilisation efforts, Richie samples returned by Hayabusa2 show signs of terrestrial contamination, raising questions about planetary protection protocols.- Martian Moons' New Origin Theory: Discover a fresh perspective on how Phobos and Deimos may have formed. A new model suggests that these moons originated from debris of an asteroid that broke apart due to Mars's gravitational forces, offering an alternative to previous impact and capture theories.- Galactic Collisions Unveiled: Explore the first findings from the WEAVE instrument on the William Herschel Telescope. By studying Stefan's Quintet, astronomers reveal the staggering speeds of shock waves from colliding galaxies, shedding light on cosmic interactions and future Milky Way-Andromeda collision scenarios.For more Space Nuts, including our continually updating newsfeed and to listen to all our episodes, visit our website. Follow us on social media at SpaceNutsPod on facebook, X, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, and TikTok. We love engaging with our community, so be sure to drop us a message or comment on your favourite platform.For more Space and Astronomy News Podcasts, visit our HQ at www.bitesz.com.Become a supporter of this podcast for extended commercial-free episodes and more. Visit our Support page for options: spacenutspodcast.com/aboutStay curious, keep looking up, and join us next time for more stellar insights and cosmic wonders. Until then, clear skies and happy stargazing.00:00 - Andrew Dunkley: Coming up on this edition of Space Nuts01:15 - This episode will be officially released two days after your 800th birthday02:29 - Justin Jackson says Ryugu samples show effort to keep them clean has failed12:12 - If that can happen in a room that's designed not to allow it12:47 - New theory put forward about origin of moon's phobos and Deimos21:22 - Andrew Dunkley says spherical potatoes could be useful in space missions22:46 - Fred looks at an instrument connected to the William Herschel telescope26:45 - Professor Gavin Dalton has been working on the William Herschel Telescope31:30 - We've got similar collision speeds as Andromeda.✍️ Episode ReferencesImperial College London[imperial.ac.uk](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/)Meteoritics and Planetary Science Journal[wiley.com](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19455100)phys.org[phys.org](https://phys.org/)Durham University[durham.ac.uk](https://www.dur.ac.uk/)NASA Spaceflight[nasaspaceflight.com](https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/)JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency)[jaxa.jp](https://www.jaxa.jp/)William Herschel Telescope[ing.iac.es](http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/telescopes/wht/)Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes[ing.iac.es](http://www.ing.iac.es/)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/space-nuts--2631155/support.

Dante Lauretta is a Regents Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He is an expert in near-Earth asteroid formation and evolution. He is the leader of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return mission, the United States' premier mission to visit one of the most Potentially Hazardous near-Earth Asteroids, survey it to assess its impact hazard and resource potential, understand its physical and chemical properties, and return a sample of this body to Earth for detailed scientific analysis. He also maintains an active research program in Cosmochemistry and Meteoritics. Please check out these relevant links: Dante Lauretta OSIRIS-REx The Asteroid Hunter Xtronaut Leadership in Star Trek Welcome to Dice in Mind, a podcast hosted by Brad Browne and Jason Kaufman to explore the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, and creativity through interviews with leading creatives. All are welcome in this space. Royalty-free music "Night Jazz Beats" courtesy of flybirdaudio. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!

Harvey Nininger was on his way home 100 years ago tonight when he saw something that changed his life: a “fireball” — a brilliant space rock burning up in the atmosphere. Nininger taught biology at McPherson College, a small liberal-arts school in Kansas. On his walk home from work, he'd stopped to visit with a colleague when the fireball flashed overhead. It created a lot of questions for Nininger. But he found few answers — no one was studying meteors or meteorites — space rocks that fell to the ground. So Nininger started studying them on his own. That led to a career as a meteor hunter — and the birth of a new field of study: meteoritics. Nininger calculated — wrongly, it turns out — that the meteor of November 9th, 1923, had landed in Colorado. So he set off to find it. He found two meteorites. But both had arrived on Earth much earlier. In 1930, Nininger devoted full time to hunting and studying meteorites. He visited farms, asking people if they had any odd rocks. He paid a dollar a pound for the ones that were meteorites. He sold some of his finds to pay for his work. Later, Nininger opened a museum near Meteor Crater in Arizona. And he got other people involved in the field. Meteoritics became a full academic subject. His work led to a fuller understanding of meteorites, and the larger rocks from which they come. So a chance view of a brilliant meteor led to a new field of study — which continues today.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

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This week we talk about meteor crater. Meteor Crater (https://meteorcrater.com/) Kring, David A. "Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment." Meteoritics & Planetary Science 32.4 (1997): 517-530. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01297.x) Fun Paper Friday Can the pill color change the outcome? De Craen, Anton JM, et al. "Effect of colour of drugs: systematic review of perceived effect of drugs and of their effectiveness." Bmj 313.7072 (1996): 1624-1626. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359128/pdf/b../) Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack (https://softwareunderground.org) @dontpanicgeo (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

LaTeX is a beautiful way to make documents, especially when they have lots of equations, tables, and more. This week we dive into how you too can talk TeX. Download MikTeX (https://miktex.org/download) Fun Paper Friday Matsui, Takafumi, et al. "The manufacture and origin of the Tutankhamen meteoritic iron dagger." Meteoritics & Planetary Science (2022). (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/maps.13787) ## Contact us: Show Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/dontpanicgeo) www.dontpanicgeocast.com (http://www.dontpanicgeocast.com) SWUNG Slack (https://softwareunderground.org) @dontpanicgeo (https://twitter.com/dontpanicgeo) show@dontpanicgeocast.com John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com (http://www.johnrleeman.com) - @geo_leeman (https://twitter.com/geo_leeman) Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin (https://twitter.com/ShannonDulin)

Until the Apollo moon landings, our only samples of material from space were in the form of meteorites. These meteorites gave us an insight into the origins of our solar system, and might even have provided the complex organic molecules that allowed life to develop on our planet. In this episode we have an awesome chat with noted meteoriticist Greg Brennecka. We explore some of the history of meteorite research, the origins of life on Earth and the free samples of Mars rock that arrived on Earth in the form of meteorites. Greg also gives us a highlights package from his new book 'Impact, How Rocks From Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong'.Meteorites might have brought the ingredients of life to Earth, but they've caused some mass extinctions as well. "...the meteorites giveth, and the meteorites taketh away." This is a fascinating insight.Find Greg's book 'Impact' hereFollow Cosmic Coffee Time on Twitter for some special contenttwitter.com/CosmicCoffTimeYou can request a topic for the show! Or even just say hi!We'd love to hear from you.Email us!cosmiccoffeetime@gmail.com

Time to throw the devil horns and apply superfluous umlauts to vöwëls, because this week The Dirt is totally metal! Metallurgy, that is. How and when did humans first use metals, and what can we learn about them? Some come straight from the ground, others from far, far away, some from a combination of raw materials, and some? Some come FROM OUTER SPACE. Links King Tut's Dagger Was Made From a Meteorite (Smithsonian) The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade (Meteoritics and Planetary Science) Greenland's Iron Age came from space (Science Nordic) New Respect for Metal's Role in Ancient Arctic Cultures (Science) Robert E. Peary and the Cape York Meteorites (Polar Geography) The Dollop Episode 240: North Pole Madness On the origins of extractive metallurgy: new evidence from Europe (Journal of Archaeological Science) Prehistoric Balkans Were 'Faking' Gold 6,500 Years Ago (Ha'aretz) Theorizing Bronze-Age Intercultural trade : the evidence of the weights (Paléorient) Exchange Systems and Trade Networks in Anthropology and Archaeology (ThoughtCo) Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Treasures, Hints More May Be Buried at Site (Smithsonian) High spatial dynamics-photoluminescence imaging reveals the metallurgy of the earliest lost-wax cast object (Nature Communications) Lost Wax Casting Process (National Sculpture Society) How Was Iron Smelted in Ancient Israel? Researchers Build Kilns to Find Out (Ha'aretz) Contact Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates Wildnote Digital Marketing Course TeePublic Timeular

Time to throw the devil horns and apply superfluous umlauts to vöwëls, because this week The Dirt is totally metal! Metallurgy, that is. How and when did humans first use metals, and what can we learn about them? Some come straight from the ground, others from far, far away, some from a combination of raw materials, and some? Some come FROM OUTER SPACE. Links King Tut's Dagger Was Made From a Meteorite (Smithsonian) The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade (Meteoritics and Planetary Science) Greenland's Iron Age came from space (Science Nordic) New Respect for Metal's Role in Ancient Arctic Cultures (Science) Robert E. Peary and the Cape York Meteorites (Polar Geography) The Dollop Episode 240: North Pole Madness On the origins of extractive metallurgy: new evidence from Europe (Journal of Archaeological Science) Prehistoric Balkans Were 'Faking' Gold 6,500 Years Ago (Ha'aretz) Theorizing Bronze-Age Intercultural trade : the evidence of the weights (Paléorient) Exchange Systems and Trade Networks in Anthropology and Archaeology (ThoughtCo) Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Treasures, Hints More May Be Buried at Site (Smithsonian) High spatial dynamics-photoluminescence imaging reveals the metallurgy of the earliest lost-wax cast object (Nature Communications) Lost Wax Casting Process (National Sculpture Society) How Was Iron Smelted in Ancient Israel? Researchers Build Kilns to Find Out (Ha'aretz) Contact Email the Dirt Podcast Affiliates Wildnote Digital Marketing Course TeePublic Timeular

Along with Antarctica and the Sahara, one of the best places on earth to find meteorites is the dry lakebeds of New Mexico. So it's not surprising that among the first institutions established to study these extraterrestrial visitors is UNM's Institute of Meteoritics . The Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary with a Symposium on October 24 and 25 that includes an open house at the Institute's Meteorite Museum . The Director of the Institute, Dr. Carl Agee , joined KUNM to talk about meteorites.

Learn about new insights into the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, which was created by America’s largest asteroid impact; why birds sing; and why your bruises change colors while they heal. In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: You Can Still See the Destruction from America's Largest Asteroid Impact — https://curiosity.im/2KKF1ji Why Do Birds Sing? — https://curiosity.im/31WBWlQ  Why Do Bruises Change Color? — https://curiosity.im/2ZuFgDn  Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing. 

Because of space physics, one faraway asteroid is likely the progenitor of almost a third of all the meteorites on Earth. Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video: skl.sh/MinuteEarth Thanks also to our supporters on ___________________________________________   If you want to learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Asteroid: A rocky body smaller than a planet that is orbiting the sun.Meteoroid: A smaller rocky body moving in the solar system.Meteor: A meteoroid that has entered the Earth’s atmosphere.Meteorite: A meteor that hits the Earth.Orbital resonance: A force that occurs when orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, because of the length of their relative orbits. Kirkwood Gap: A dip in the distribution of main belt asteroids that correspond to the locations of orbital resonances with Jupiter. ___________________________________________   Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer: David Goldenberg (@dgoldenberg) Script Editor: Alex Reich Video Illustrator: Jorge Video Director: Emily Elert (@eelert) Video Narrator: Emily Elert (@eelert) With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Kate Yoshida, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder:   _________________________________________   Like our videos? Subscribe to MinuteEarth on YouTube: Support us on Patreon: And visit our website: https://www.minuteearth.com/   Also, say hello on: Facebook: http://goo.gl/FpAvo6 Twitter: http://goo.gl/Y1aWVC   And download our videos on itunes:  https://goo.gl/sfwS6n ___________________________________________   If you liked this week’s video, we think you might also like: A terrifying but fascinating look at the destructive power of potential meteorites: http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/   ___________________________________________   References: Burbine, T., McCoy, T., Meibom, A., Royer, C., Gladman, B., and Keil, K. (2002). Meteoritic Parent Bodies: Their Number and Identification. Asteroids III. 653-667. Retrieved from: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002aste.book..653B Farinella, P., Gonczi, R., Froeschle, Ch., and Froeschle, C. (1993). The Injection of Asteroid Fragments into Resonances. Icarus. 101: 174-187. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910358371016X Fieber-Beyer, S., Gaffey, M., Bottke, W., and Hardersen, P. (2015). Potentially hazardous Asteroid 2007 LE: Compositional link to the black chondrite Rose City and Asteroid (6) Hebe. Icarus. 250: 430-437. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103514007088 Gaffey, M. and Gilbert, S. (1998). Asteroid 6 Hebe: The probable parent body of the H-type ordinary chondrites and the IIE iron meteorites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 33: 1281-1295. Retrieved from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01312.x/abstract Vokrouhlicky, D., and Farinella, P. (2000). Efficient delivery of meteorites to the Earth from a wide range of asteroid parent bodies. Nature. 407: 606-608. Retrieved from: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6804/full/407606a0.html Moons, M. and Morbidelli, A. (1995). Secular Resonances in Mean Motion Commensurabilities: The 4/1, 3/1, 5/2, and 7/3 Cases. Icarus. 114: 33-50. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910358571041X Burbine, Thomas. (2017). Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts. Personal Communication.

Dr Philipp HECK, Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Dr Philipp HECK, Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Second Law of Thermodynamics which can be very simply stated like this: "Energy spontaneously tends to flow from being concentrated in one place to becoming diffused and spread out". It was first formulated – derived from ideas first put forward by Lord Kelvin - to explain how a steam engine worked, it can explain why a cup of tea goes cold if you don't drink it and how a pan of water can be heated to boil an egg.But its application has been found to be rather grander than this. The Second Law is now used to explain the big bang, the expansion of the cosmos and even suggests our inexorable passage through time towards the 'heat death' of the universe. It's been called the most fundamental law in all of science, and CP Snow in his Two Cultures wrote: "Not knowing the Second Law of Thermodynamics is like never having read a work of Shakespeare".What is the Second Law? What are its implications for time and energy in the universe, and does it tend to be refuted by the existence of life and the theory of evolution?With John Gribbin, Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex; Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University; Monica Grady, Head of Petrology and Meteoritics at the Natural History Museum.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Second Law of Thermodynamics which can be very simply stated like this: "Energy spontaneously tends to flow from being concentrated in one place to becoming diffused and spread out". It was first formulated – derived from ideas first put forward by Lord Kelvin - to explain how a steam engine worked, it can explain why a cup of tea goes cold if you don't drink it and how a pan of water can be heated to boil an egg.But its application has been found to be rather grander than this. The Second Law is now used to explain the big bang, the expansion of the cosmos and even suggests our inexorable passage through time towards the 'heat death' of the universe. It's been called the most fundamental law in all of science, and CP Snow in his Two Cultures wrote: "Not knowing the Second Law of Thermodynamics is like never having read a work of Shakespeare".What is the Second Law? What are its implications for time and energy in the universe, and does it tend to be refuted by the existence of life and the theory of evolution?With John Gribbin, Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex; Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University; Monica Grady, Head of Petrology and Meteoritics at the Natural History Museum.