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Meteorites
How to tell the difference between a space rock & an Earth Rock
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<blockquote data-quote="aaron.cavosie" data-source="post: 560707" data-attributes="member: 18570"><p>The planetary science group at Curtin uni in Perth was formalized into the Space Science and Technology Centre (SSTC) in 2018. There is heaps of different experience among the staff and researchers there, including meteorite specialists, Mars and Moon experts, Australian impact craters and shock metamorphism (that's my thing), and others. One of our staff members is a project scientist of NASA's InSight mission that landed a seismometer on Mars and is active. Another of us is a project scientist on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that is currently orbiting a spacecraft around the carbonaceous chondrite asteroid Bennu, a Near-Earth asteroid. I'm on a NASA project with collaborators in the US to study diogenites, which are meteorites thought to originate from the asteroid 4-Vesta. Others in our group build Cubesats, which are 10cm x 10cm x 10cm payloads that we launch into space by hitching rides on rockets launched by others. If you think you've got legit meteorites, post photos here, and I'll try and offer a comment. If you're around Perth, feel free to come visit us with your rock; we can usually tell if its a meteor-right or a meteor-wrong pretty quickly. If it passes the initial inspection, we can also do further tests in house, some invasive (snipping off a corner for analysis), and others non-invasive. Part of our mission is to provide services, where we can, to the greater community in Australia by sharing our expertise with you. Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaron.cavosie, post: 560707, member: 18570"] The planetary science group at Curtin uni in Perth was formalized into the Space Science and Technology Centre (SSTC) in 2018. There is heaps of different experience among the staff and researchers there, including meteorite specialists, Mars and Moon experts, Australian impact craters and shock metamorphism (that's my thing), and others. One of our staff members is a project scientist of NASA's InSight mission that landed a seismometer on Mars and is active. Another of us is a project scientist on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission that is currently orbiting a spacecraft around the carbonaceous chondrite asteroid Bennu, a Near-Earth asteroid. I'm on a NASA project with collaborators in the US to study diogenites, which are meteorites thought to originate from the asteroid 4-Vesta. Others in our group build Cubesats, which are 10cm x 10cm x 10cm payloads that we launch into space by hitching rides on rockets launched by others. If you think you've got legit meteorites, post photos here, and I'll try and offer a comment. If you're around Perth, feel free to come visit us with your rock; we can usually tell if its a meteor-right or a meteor-wrong pretty quickly. If it passes the initial inspection, we can also do further tests in house, some invasive (snipping off a corner for analysis), and others non-invasive. Part of our mission is to provide services, where we can, to the greater community in Australia by sharing our expertise with you. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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