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Wed 19 May
|Coleshill Village Hall
Lecture - Dr Ashley King - The Winchcombe Meteorite
Time & Location
19 May 2027, 20:00 – 22:00
Coleshill Village Hall, Barracks Hill, Coleshill, Amersham HP7 0LN, UK
About the Event
Photo credit, BBC Sky At Nightttps://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/author/ashley-king
Please note, Dr Ashley King will be doing the lecture over Zoom but will be shown in the Coleshill Village hall.
About Dr Ashley King
Dr Ashley King is a research fellow at the Natural History Museum, London, investigating the origin of the Solar System.
"My research aims to understand the formation of the solar system - how it evolved from a cloud of gas and dust to the Sun, planets, asteroids and comets we see today. To achieve this I use a range of analytical techniques to investigate the bulk- to nano-scale mineralogical, chemical and isotopic properties of primitive meteorites and samples returned by spacecraft from asteroids and comets. In particular my interests include extra-solar and solar dust in the proto-planetary disk, low and high temperature alteration of meteorites, and the relationship between meteorites, asteroids and comets."
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/ashley-king.html