Space Rocks!

An international planetary science team led by @DrAndy_Tomkins. Based at @MonashEAE @MonashUni along with the UK Team @UKSpaceRocks

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

~Team Nullarbor 2k19 and our record breaking haul of 46 meteorites collected over 8 days of hot, sweaty desert hunting~ Our samples are in the lab @MonashEAE and you will see new science soon w/ @NullarborPurple @NatStephen @heab @GneissguyAngus @High5forscience @ItsJenMitchell

[Angus Rogers🌋 @HeavyMetalAngus]

Doctor @NatStephen from @EMC_PlymUni just gave an awesome talk about techniques for investigating #meteorites and how these techniques could be used for space exploration! @SpaceRocksAust

[Dr Natasha Stephen @NatStephen]

Where are all the #lunatics?! @Katie_H_Joy @Neal148409276 @KerriDHanna @heab @EarthSolarSystm @SpaceRocksAust

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

. @JasminaGalloway and @DrAndy_Tomkins join the forces of geology and physics to explore what happens when radioactive supanova remnants "bullets" are shot into forming planets in the "habitable zone". Can they influence habitability?
#sserviOz2019
Slide image: @aussiastronomer

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

Dr Christophe Pinte from @MonashAstro delves into the detail of the proto- (and hosting! ) planetary disk and shows evidence of planets in gaps via calculated deviation of emitted gasses.
#sserviOz2019

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

. @danprice_astro of Monash Uni Physics discusses hunting rapidly formed planets within radially distributed dust rings of protoplanetary discs from ALMA surveys
#sserviOz2019

[Dr Jen Mitchell @ItsJenMitchell]

Kicking off #sserviOz2019 with invited speaker Mike Zolensky on what we can expect from samples from #asteroid Ryugu

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

Trevor Ireland of @anuearthscience presents the story of the Japanese Hayabusa sample missions of S and C-type asteroids and how the frustrating challenges experienced dictated an interesting evolution of craft design and sample techiques for Ryugu
#rsesrockstars
#sserviOz2019

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

Our #sserviOz2019 host @ItsJenMitchell presents a rare example of a beautiful pristine chondrule stumbled upon in a polymict breccia (Howardite) from a Vesta ejecta blanket and discusses implications for timing of LL(?) chondrule incorporation and sulfidation.

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

Space rocks team member @GneissguyAngus teaches us about how PGEs in #micrometeorites recovered from the Nullarbor and Flinders Ranges may be used tell us about atmospheric chemistries from both the modern and palaeo- atmospheres.

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

. @DrAndy_Tomkins and the space rocks team find hundreds of #micrometeorites in limestone cracks on the Nullarbor, a Martian analogue site, and discuss its implications as a source of energy for microbes
#sserviOz2019

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

David Flannery from UQ takes us through the plan for #Mars2020 mission to #Jezero Crator, the rover's onboard tech and Australia's involvement through informative Archean fossil samples in the search for life on #Mars
@sserviaustralia
#sserviOz2019

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

Exciting preliminary results and insights from @NASAInSight presented by @SpaceKatarina investigating Martian planetary interiors and impact events. @sserviaustralia
#sserviOz2019

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

. @_Ken_Orr_ uses TIMA, EBSD, EPMA and uFTIR techniques on Martian #meteorites achieving mineral spectra to map Mars

#sserviOz2019

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

First #sserviOz2019 invited talk on visualising fabrics in basaltic Martian #meteorites (#shergottites) (and doggos!) with @PlanetOfLucy through electron backscatter showing lava settling and flowing regimes on Mars.

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

The space rocks team is excited to be attending #sserviOz2019 with host @ItsJenMitchell and @DrAndy_Tomkins at @ausynchrotron with @heab

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

Late night tomography has us cooking our meteorites with rice! @High5forscience @heab @ausynchrotron @NatStephen @SaltbushStories @GneissguyAngus @DrAndy_Tomkins @melaniefinch_ #SynchrotronLife #SpaceRocks Also, we're looking at #pyroxene from the mantle and space #mincup2019

[ANSTO @ANSTO]

Sample of a lunar meteorite from @EMC_PlymUni is headed to Imaging and Medical beamline @ausynchrotron with some lunar crater analogues from @esascience @UniKent and the help of @heab #NationalScienceWeek
https://t.co/kS7gvf0pPx

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

@PlymUni @RoyalAstroSoc @EMC_PlymUni @EarthSciPlymUni @NatStephen @OxInst @JEOLEUROPE @MonashEAE ...combined elements/colours reveal different textures or #minerals within the samples, which help us describe them.

We need these detailed #geological descriptions to be able to officially name and classify them as new #meteorites.

This chondrite was found back in 2014!

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

We've got a *lot* of #meteorites to classify thanks to our Nullarbor recovery team, so @PlymUni students are helping us over in the UK too.

Becca is funded by the @RoyalAstroSoc, and is working @EMC_PlymUni on samples found back in 2013, including this chondrite... #SpaceRocks

[Space Rocks! @SpaceRocksAust]

@PlymUni @RoyalAstroSoc @EMC_PlymUni @EarthSciPlymUni @NatStephen @OxInst @JEOLEUROPE @MonashEAE We use #ElectronMicroscopy to study the chemical makeup of our #meteorites - instruments from @JEOLEurope & detectors from @OxInst at @EMC_PlymUni allow us to analyse samples without damaging them, combining different chemical elements together for the one sample...