Dr. Luke Daly, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow will present the third public lecture of the session "Where do Space Rocks Come From?" online via Zoom.  Login details will be provided here before the event.

There are over 60,000 meteorites in world wide collections but we know where only a handful came from in the Solar System.  Come find out how camera networks like the UK Fireball Network operated by researchers at the University of Glasgow is working to recover meteorites with orbits, and how you can help us recover the first meteorite fall on UK soil for 30 years.

Dr. Luke Daly is a Lecturer in Planetary Geoscience in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.  He studies space rocks to understand where Earth got its water from.  He is a participating scientist on the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 mission to return samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and co-leads the operation of the UK Fireball Network to find meteorites in the UK and to try to find out where they come from.

The lecture will start promptly at 1930

Prof Bonnie Steves, Director, The Graduate School & Professor of Mathematical Astronomy, Glasgow Caledonian University will present the fourth public lecture of the session "Strange Worlds: Extrasolar Planets" online via Zoom.

Login details will be provided here before the event.

The lecture will start promptly at 1930

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Dr Queenie Chan answers questions after her successful lecture
entitled "Meteorites and the Search for Life", September 2019
Image: Paul Makin

The ASG's free public lectures for the 2020-21 session are as follows. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic our normal venue at University of Strathclyde is closed and public lecture will instead be held online via Zoom.  Access links for the Zoom sessions will be posted below before each lecture.  All lectures start at 19:30