When Prof Phil Bland's new paper hit the internet with a title of "Giant Convecting Mud Balls of the Early Solar System" published in Science Advances , you know all the science blogs got excited! Give a google of "bland mud balls" and you'll see...
Congratulations to Associate Professor Gretchen Benedix for the $1 million grant as a 2017 Australian Research Centre Future Fellow to learn more about past potential for habitability on Mars as well as to select future landing sites! Gretchen is one of the Desert Fireball Network's rockstars...
What happened next to this year's most famous meteorite? Lots! Well first, it was the star attraction on campus and the celebrity for many #selfies. Then, in the week that followed it's media debut, apparent controversy emerged as to who owns the meteorite? Well, it's not controversial at...
We got asked on twitter this morning whether this solar panel had indeed been hit and shattered by a meteorite. It looks like a pretty heavy impact and would be really cool if it's true ...
Digging up our first meteorite (yet to be officially named*) was a massive team effort and a huge relief. It's also been a news sensation and you can read about it on WA Today, SBS News, The Washington Post, Time Magazine and most everywhere you look on...
Luke’s Wolfe Creek blog in August was so entertaining that we asked him to put pen to paper again on his next journey. Turns out, we didn’t have to wait long. Luke’s journal continues … (the story started with On the Road Again) The Mission Most expeditions are content with...
Congratulations to our recent winners in the DFN - Lucy, Luke and Rob! At this year's MetSoc - Meteoritical Society Conference - Lucy Forman won one of five Wiley Student Awards for outstanding presentation for her explanation of her work on the Allende meteorite. It will be presented at next...
A few of the team headed up to Murchison last month to install two Desert Fireball Network cameras next to a pod of the Murchison Widefield Array's low frequency radio telescopes. [caption id="attachment_1810" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Hadrien adding the finishing touches[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1808" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The two DFN...
How do you know if it’s a meteorite or meteorwrong? Ever wondered whether that weird looking rock you saw was something special? Tens of thousands of meteorites fall to Earth every year, so perhaps you actually found a meteorite on that last camping trip. We’ve adapted a...
Luke, Martin and Jarryd headed off to Wolfe Creek meteorite crater in remote WA last week. The plan was to make a 3D image of the crater using a drone, map the crater, take some samples (to analyse for shock or melt glass and confirm...