New how-to article now up.📝
"Sanding and Polishing Meteorites by Hand" ☄️ 🪨 🖐️
How to improve the appearance and value of meteorite slices and endcuts using commonly available sandpaper and elbow grease. 💰 💪
🔗 Link : https://galactic-stone.com/galactic-stone-archive/sanding-and-polishing-meteorites-by-hand/
autorover can jump back into the sky again now, though it's probably best if i don't overuse this as it's not really meant to be distracting
I haven’t been keeping up – a very busy few days driving from DE to south NL, then to north NL for our son’s graduation, & back to south NL for the ESA ESTEC Open Day with #SpaceRocks yesterday.
Many pictures from that, but here’s a lovely one from the Lammermarkt underground car park in Leiden for now, representing some of the city’s key contributions to science, not least astronomy ✨
#Science ⚗️
#Photography 📷
Just crossing the Mosel west of Koblenz, en-route to Noordwijk for this weekend’s ESA ESTEC Open Day with #SpaceRocks 🖖🙂🤘
Left it late leaving home, where it was sunny & warm, but this is much better driving weather, especially in my crappy little Citroën C1 without air conditioning 🥵✌️
"Meteorites & Astronomy, an Intimate Connection" 🔭 🪐 🪨
"When we look at craters on the moon in our eyepieces, we are seeing the impact sites that launched the lunar meteorites we now have on Earth in our collections. Holding a lunar meteorite is the closest thing we "normal folk" will come to touching the Moon where the Apollo astronauts once walked." 🌜 🚀
Link : https://galactic-stone.com/meteorites-astronomy-an-intimate-connection/
#Astronomy #Meteorites #PlanetaryScience #Stargazing #SpaceRocks #Space
here's one more for fans of "a lot going on" 🌌🪐🔭
#space #spaceRocks #lumpySpaceRocks #godot #gameDev #proceduralGeneration
In Stuttgart for another evening in the presence of Messrs Wilson, Blundell, Holzman, McStine, & Beggs, & “The Overview” 🖖🙂🤘
Are you listening, Mr @alexandermilas?
Unclassified NWA chondrite meteorite with fusion crust.
STAR WARS DAY, "The Real Star Wars" Public Talk at the Planetarium on May 4th at 3:00 PM to learn about Meteorites, Meteors, and Impact Craters of SA! Don't miss this opportunity to discover how rocks from space have shaped our landscape. Link for more details and to get tickets. #starwars #StarWarsDay #Planetarium #SpaceRocks #SouthAfrica #Science #PlanetaryScience
NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a curious rock on Mars, dubbed St. Paul's Bay. Made of tiny rounded stones, it was found in Jezero Crater while searching for ancient life. Scientists are puzzling over its origin. #Mars #Perseverance #SpaceRocks
Out this evening doing some stress testing of our #SpaceRocks cotton tote bag 🚀🎸
Six litre bottles of unpasteurised beer from the local abbey? 🧐
Passed with flying colours 🍻🖖🤘
Amazing 😳
It’s not every day that you get name checked on an album that’s number 1 in the UK midweek album charts🙀
Let alone it being a 42 minute, two track prog concept album about the cosmic perspective that considering the vastness of space brings to our ephemeral lives ✨
Kudos to Steven Wilson for the stunning music – it’s a privilege to be involved along with my good friend, @alexandermilas 🙇♂️
Coming at 1800CET/1700GMT today: conversation about Jeff Wayne’s “The War of the Worlds” as it goes out on tour & the possibility of life on Mars.
With Sara Russell of the Natural History Museum & me on the science, Dave Rowntree of Blur, Brian Cox, & my #SpaceRocks co-founder @alexandermilas talking with Jeff about his classic album, plus Rou Reynolds of Enter Shikari who’s in the new show.
Was a fun day in London with Alex et al who made the film 🖖🤘
https://www.youtube.com/live/yEyiKOLfnBI?si=gp1204uRI6kbHP3z
I'm busy with a creative project of my own (more of which soon), but just a quick one to flag the release Steven Wilson's space-inspired album "The Overview" yesterday ✨
I've had it for a few weeks & it's brilliant – immersive epic prog with zero pandering to the nano-attention span, oh so knowing world of streamed sludge 🙇♂️
It was a privilege to be part of the album premiere event at the BFI IMAX in London & I'm proud of the #SpaceRocks connection – thanks, Steven 🖖🤘
https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2025/02/27/steven-wilson-presents-the-overview/
In London this week for a few events & meetings, some of which I can't talk about yet (ooh, mystery! 🤪)
But this one's public – I'll be at the British Film Institute this evening for a premiere of Steven Wilson's new space-inspired album "The Overview", with visuals on the IMAX screen.
We'll have a panel discussion after with Steven, the film maker Miles, my ESA colleague Miho, & my #SpaceRocks compadre, Alex.
Tonight is sold out, but there are more dates in Europe before the album tour 🖖🤘
Even if last night’s New Year’s Eve show on BBC One was an “awkward & breathless mess”, you at least have to applaud the set decoration team for their impeccable taste 😘
#HappyNewYear2025
#JWST #NASA #ESA #CSA
#SpaceScience 🚀🛰️🔭✨
#SpaceRocks 🖖🤘
Looking forward to “The Overview”, the new album from our friend Steven Wilson, prog musician & producer extraordinaire, & his 2025 tour 🎶
Inspired by the perspective gained by looking down at Earth from space or outward into the cosmos, & as you’ll see, a conversation that started with Space Rocks 🖖🙂🤘
It’s late on Friday night & in honour of Steven Strait / James Holden of #TheExpanse appearing at ESTEC’s Open Day with #SpaceRocks in Noordwijk this weekend, ESA have just announced the latest design of the EnVision mission to Venus 👍
Scientists Believe They Now Know Where the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From
From Space?
