The Winchcombe Meteorite

温奇科姆陨石

• 批准号: ST/W001691/1
• 负责人: Sara Russell
• 金额: $ 0.63万
• 依托单位: Natural History Museum
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FW001691%2F1
• 关键词: Winchcombe; Meteorite

Our aims are to:1. Engage the local population. We will reach out to the entire population of Winchcombe and Woodmancote to share our excitement about the meteorite fall. This is the first meteorite recovered in the UK in 30 years and we hope that we can engage the local population in such a way that they are as excited as we are about the event, and enable it to become and important and well-recorded and well-remembered part of their local history.2. Educate the local population. We will use this very 'human-scale' event as a portal to dive into other aspects of STFC-related science. We will discuss how this meteorite, as old as the solar system, can tell us about our origins and how planets formed and evolved. We will introduce older pupils to our work, for example, at the Diamond Light Source, studying the space rock at a microscopic scale. 3. Recover new material. The reason for the urgency of this request and its focus on the local area, is to enable to local population to search for new fragments of the meteorite. The chondrite fell as a shower of very friable material, and many of the smaller finds to date were very fortuitous. It is highly likely that more material is on the ground, and we would like local citizens to assist us in searching for more invaluable material.

我们的目标是：1.吸引当地居民。我们将与温奇康贝和伍德曼科特的全体居民分享我们对陨石坠落的兴奋之情。这是30年来在英国发现的第一颗陨石，我们希望我们能让当地居民和我们一样对这一事件感到兴奋，并使它成为当地历史中重要的、记录良好的和难忘的一部分。教育当地居民。我们将利用这个非常“人类规模”的事件作为一个门户，深入到STFC相关科学的其他方面。我们将讨论这颗与太阳系一样古老的陨石如何告诉我们我们的起源以及行星如何形成和进化。我们将向年长的学生介绍我们的工作，例如，在钻石光源，在微观尺度上研究太空岩石。3.回收新材料。之所以紧急提出这一要求，并将重点放在当地，是为了使当地居民能够寻找陨石的新碎片。球粒陨石是由非常易碎的物质组成的，迄今为止发现的许多较小的球粒陨石都是非常偶然的。很可能还有更多的材料在当地，我们希望当地公民协助我们寻找更多宝贵的材料。