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Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust
- quercusa 3y agoThere's a very cool book of photos of micrometeorites: In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters By Jon Larsen, ISBN: 9780760352649
- bryan0 3y agoI recommend the Werner Herzog’s documentary “Fireball” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball:_Visitors_from_Darker_Worlds https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball:_Visitors_from_Dark... ) which has a segment with Jon Larsen and his process for capturing images of micro meteorites
- verisimi 3y ago> The roaring of a vacuum cleaner breaks the silence and researcher Dr Penny Wozniakiewicz, dressed in hazmat suit with a bulky vacuum backpack, carefully traces a gutter with the tube of the suction machine. I reckon every week my house gets a load of meteorites on it. Please email to make a weekly arrangement for cleaning the, er, meteorites up. My rates are very reasonable!
- OJFord 3y agoWhy the hazmat suit? It's not like they're going to contaminate the samples with space dust accidentally brought from home (or rather if they did they wouldn't care anyway - they want those particles not specifically what's on the cathedral roof)?
- anfractuosity 3y agoIt mentions "they are protecting themselves from bird flu, possibly contained in the droppings and bird bones we see on the roof"
- OJFord 3y agoAh, thanks