On Monday 13th January I visited Stowe School in Buckingham to speak to the GCSE and A-level students about my research, namely comets and asteroids. I took along the meteorite collection and there was much excitement from the students and teachers when they got to hold a little piece of Mars. Gibeon was also a clear favourite purely because of its size and weight! The students were full of questions at the end of my talks and it was great to see so much enthusiasm for space science. I finished up by speaking about the exciting Rosetta results that have started coming out and even left some of the students with some homework research as they were interested to learn more about oxygen isotopes. In summary, a lovely evening in a beautiful school, and I even got a delicious dinner too, with ‘Stowe School’ personalised after dinner mints (see pic)!
