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[meteorite-list] Professor Colin Pillinger lecture - Stones from the sky: A 
heaven-sent opportunity to talk about science
Martin Goff msgmeteorites 
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Fri Feb 10 03:50:55 EST 2012 
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Hi all, 

Please see the link below to a webcast of 
Professor Colin Pillingers 
lecture to the Royal Society recently. 

(http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/stones-from-the-sky/) 

Professor Pillinger was the recipient of the Michael Faraday prize in 
recognition of his excellence in communicating science. The lecture is 
called 'Stones from the sky - A heaven sent opportunity to talk about 
science' For those who dont know about Professor Pillinger, here is a 
lowdown: 

'Colin Pillinger is Professor of Planetary Sciences at the 
Open 
University. His research interests include designing unique 
instruments to analyse extraterrestrial samples. During his forty year 
career he has made more than a thousand contributions to scientific 
literature, and also found time to be one of Britain's foremost 
science 
communicators, contributing dozens of popular articles in 
newspapers and 
magazines as well as giving hundreds of public 
lectures. After analysing a 
number of meteorites from Mars and finding 
tantalising evidence of the 
existence of life there, he conceived the 
Beagle 2 mission to land on the 
Red Planet to confirm his discoveries. 
Throughout the project he filled over 
thirty notebooks recording the 
daily happenings which form the basis of his 
autobiographical account 
of the mission - "My life on Mars". ' 

Colin 
Pillinger is friends with Derek and Katrina Gray, the owners of 
the Wold 
Cottage and has a particular interest in the Wold Cottage 
meteorite and in 
Sir Edward Topham who was the owner of the land at 
the time the meteorite 
fell. The webcast is an hour long but its worth 
watching, a really good 
intro to the history of the study of 
meteorites from a definite personality 
in the field. 

Cheers 


Martin 

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