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Could there be a new UK meteorite? 

A fireball captured on cameras in the early hours of Thursday 14th April may have dropped a meteorite near Shrewsbury. Over the Easter bank holiday weekend scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFall) led a the search of the area … Continue reading →

2021 GSA Connects Conference in Portland, Oregon 

2021 GSA Connects Conference in Portland, Oregon The Geological Society of America (GSA) Connects 2021 Conference was this Sunday-Wednesday (October 10th-13th). This conference brings together the best and brightest in geoscience for professional development, networking, and the latest innovations in the field. Check out a few of the submitted abstracts from UGS employees: From Elliot Jagniecki Diurnal to seasonal hydrological fluctuations in saline playas, examples from the Bonneville [...]

New Group Paper: Thermal Metamorphism on the Moon as Recorded by the Granulite Suite 

In this new paper, group members John Pernet-Fisher and Katherine Joy review high temperature (> ~1000 oC) thermal metamorphism on the Moon. Thermally metamorphosed rocks on the Moon are an important, yet under-studied group of rock types that have been … Continue reading →

Mission Cup 2021 

What is your favourite space mission? We’re hosting #MissionCup2021 over on our @EarthSolarSystm Twitter account from Thursday 4th Feb. Join us to vote for your favourites from midday each day, and help choose which mission will be crowned champion. T-8 … Continue reading →

Earth Science, Systems and Society: a new journal from GSL 

The Geological Society of London (GSL) is proud to announce the launch of our first fully open access journal, Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES3), for 2021. ES3 will publish timely and topical research of high importance across the breadth of the geosciences with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary geoscience and the pivotal role it … Continue reading →

Wet weather spurs landslide movement 

The reactivation of a prehistoric landslide has caused damage to buildings in Pissouri, Cyprus since 2012. In this post, Gareth Hearn and colleagues document a three-fold increase in the rate of land movement during and after an unusually wet winter. The residential development of Limnes in Pissouri, Cyprus, (Fig 1) was constructed on a slope … Continue reading →

The LPSC that never was! 

Unfortunately due to recent global events, this year the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) was canceled, which means no hot-wings or margaritas for us! Despite the cancellation check out our twitter (@EarthSolarSystm) where we are live tweeting the talks … Continue reading →

BPSC Highlights 

Last week the team headed down to Oxford to attend the 2nd British Planetary Science conference.  It was an excellent showcase of all the the fantastic science that is going on in the UK at the momment, induding talks and … Continue reading →

Scotland’s Earth-shattering secret: how to find a meteorite impact crater 

Samuel Lickiss, Production Editor in the Geological Society's Publishing House, on two papers published today in the Journal of the Geological Society with very different ideas about the potential location of a 1.2 billion year old meteorite crater in north west Scotland... Continue reading →

Jonathan Lewis – 2019 Nininger Meteorite Award winner 

Congratulations to Jonathan Lewis who has won the 2019 Nininger Meteorite Award for student research papers. The award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences, as embodied by an original research paper. Jonathan completed his PhD at the University of … Continue reading →

We’re doing a Q&A!! 

Got a burning question for a bunch of planetary scientists? On next week’s Cosmic Cast we’ll be doing a Q&A! Comment in the YouTube video below or tweet us a question (@EarthSolarSystm) by Friday and we’ll do our best to … Continue reading →

New Group Paper: Evidence of chemical heterogeneity within Lunar anorthosite parental magmas 

The Moon’s crust is very old. Formed over 4.3 billion years ago, it represents the primary lunar crust. Made up of a rocks called anorthosite (> 95 modal % Ca-rich plagioclase; see below), it makes up the light-grey areas seen … Continue reading →

Dissipation of the Solar System’s debris disk recorded in primitive meteorites. 

This post was written by Prof Jamie Gilmour We understand that systems of planets form alongside their parent stars.  Part of a rotating cloud of gas and dust collapses to form a rotating disk.  Most of the material is eventually … Continue reading →

Ancient ‘biosignatures’ of Earth’s oldest life forms identified 

New research published today in the Journal of the Geological Society tracks the remains of ancient life preserved in some of Earth's oldest rocks, and may even help identify life elsewhere in the Solar System. Continue reading →

Science is global: Applying for IGCP project funding 

The International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) recently held their annual open meeting at UNESCO, reviewing progress in 2018 and announcing their latest funded projects. Joel Gill* reports on this meeting, introducing the IGCP and sharing thoughts on how to craft a successful application. Continue reading →

Geoscientist cover competition – 1 week to go! 

Don’t forget, the deadline to submit your entries to our Geoscientist magazine cover competition is midnight on Sunday 17th March! We’re celebrating women in the geosciences and marking our 100th anniversary of female Fellowship with a special issue in May – read more about the competition here. Entries are welcome from any age group and … Continue reading →

50th Birthday of Allende 

Last month today marked the 50th birthday of the meteorite Allende. An observed fall in Mexico, this meteorite turned out to be a very special find, often earning the moniker of ‘the best-studied meteorite in history.’ We caught up with … Continue reading →

Check out our YouTube channel! 

We’ve launched a YouTube channel! In the coming weeks we’ll be posting videos about some of the cool science we get up to at Manchester. We’ll also be talking about all the cool meteorites we have in our collection. You’ll … Continue reading →

New group paper: H and Cl isotope characteristics of indigenous and late hydrothermal fluids on the differentiated asteroidal parent body of Grave Nunataks 06128 

With a total mass of ~650 grams, the meteorites Graves Nunataks (GRA) 06128 and 06129 are two large paired stones found by the US ANSMET team during the 2006 season in the Graves Nunataks area of the Transantarctic Mountains. The … Continue reading →

ZEISS-GSL Scholarship winners announced 

We're delighted to announce the two winners of the first ever Zeiss-GSL Scholarship, awarded for innovative microscopy in Earth science related projects! Continue reading →