Old Meteorites and their Secrets of the Universe
Nightlife

Old Meteorites and their Secrets of the Universe

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202613 min
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Professor Chris Kirkland joined Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife to discuss the discovery of the world's oldest meteorite, uncovered in a remote part of Western Australia.

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Many scientific discoveries take years or decades of gruelling work to come to life. The physicist and chemist Marie Curie comes to mind. She discovered polonium and radium relatively quickly after noticing an anomaly in radioactive

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ores, but still took years of work to isolate and prove the existence of the new elements. But for geologists at the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group at Curtin University, the discovery in a remote part of Western Australia of evidence of, wait for this, the oldest meteorite known to have impacted Earth with the help of Google Maps was turned out to be pretty easy to learn

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more. We're joined by Professor Chris Kirkland. He led the team that made the discovery. Chris, good evening to you.

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