Podcaster: Mel Blake
Title: Micrometeorites for Everyone
Organization: UNA Planetarium
Links: : http://www.una.edu/planetarium
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/UNA-Planetarium-and-Observatory/222205024255
@unaplanetarium
Description: I start out describing someone watching the Perseid meteors, and then discuss how meteor showers are created from debris from comets and sometimes asteroids, hitting the Earth’s atmosphere. I then discuss how you can collect micrometeorites from rainwater with a bucket and a magnet.
Bio: Dr. Mel Blake. I am from Newfoundland, Canada. I received a PhD from York University is Toronto, Canada and I am currently director of the University of North Alabama Planetarium and Observatory. I am an Associate professor in the department of Physics and earth Science. My research interests include binary stars and star clusters.
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