The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck held the fourth event in our Adventures in Planetary Science public engagement series 'Asteroids and Meteorites: Unlocking the secrets of the Solar System', online on Thursday 26th October 2023. There were talks from our planetary science experts and geologists/meteoricists, followed by a panel Q&A session with the audience. Talks and Q&A featuring Prof Hilary Downes (Birkbeck), Charlotte Bays (Royal Holloway/NHM), Dr Ashley King (NHM), hosted by Dr Andrew Rushby (Birkbeck), are available in this recording with the permission of the speakers. The live event also included Dr Sarah Crowther (Manchester).

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11/16/2023

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 10: Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour Unmanned robotic missions are essential for understanding the planets within our solar system. Current missions comprise of gentle landings combined with rovers to explore the local region. Due to the expense of such missions, and their sometimes unsuitability as scientific outposts, UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory is developing Planetary Penetrators, which aim to land on planets at very high speed, penetrating the planet and implanting equipment just below the surface. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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9/27/2023

The Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) meetings this term (Jan-Mar 2023), were held on Thursdays at 1pm online and occasionally in NWW G22 LT at UCL. The talks are an excellent way of keeping abreast with astrobiology and planetary exploration research within The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck and beyond. All those interested in these topics are welcome to attend.

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5/17/2023

05 May 2021, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm COSS is excited to host professors Bronislaw Szerszynski and Nigel Clark who will ask ‘What can a planet do?’ in their talk regarding the wider questions emanating from their recent book ‘Planetary Social Thought’. With respondents David Jeevendrampillai, Rob La Frenais and Victor Buchli.

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5/10/2021

This week's APEX talk features Ziba Norman ("Conservation versus colonisation: The ethics of a human presence in space") and Prof Michael Reiss ("The ethics of human enhancement for human space missions"), both from the Institute of Education, UCL. The Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) meetings take place this term (Jan-Apr 2020) every Tuesday at 1pm in the Pearson Lecture Theatre G22 at UCL. They are an excellent way of keeping abreast with astrobiology and planetary exploration research within The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck and beyond. All those interested in these topics are welcome to attend.

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2/19/2020

This week's APEX talk features Dr Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, on the subject of: "Why it is 'easy' to colonise the Universe". The Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) meetings take place this term (Jan-Apr 2020) every Tuesday at 1pm in the Pearson Lecture Theatre G22 at UCL. They are an excellent way of keeping abreast with astrobiology and planetary exploration research within The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck and beyond. All those interested in these topics are welcome to attend.

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2/4/2020

The Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) meetings take place this term (Jan-Apr 2020) every Tuesday at 1pm in the Pearson Lecture Theatre G22 at UCL. They are an excellent way of keeping abreast with astrobiology and planetary exploration research within The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck and beyond. All those interested in these topics are welcome to attend.

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1/30/2020