Earth and Space
Monthly Archive: December Eart
ROM Research Colloquium: Kim Tait
The annual ROM Colloquium highlights recent discoveries by ROM curators and researchers.
Curiosity Makes Tracks on Mars
Posting by Brendt Hyde, Mineralogy Techncian
Meteorite of the Month: Oriented Nose Cone
By Brendt C. Hyde and Ian Nicklin
Figure 1: Meteorite showing ‘thumbprint’ features referred to as regmaglypts.
#ROMSpace Weekend is out of this world!
Space has always been pretty important to me. In fact, my 3rd memory in LIFE is watching an episode of Star Trek The Original Series.
I love the unknown of space, how everything is so distant, and special and new. From the Asteroid Belt, sorry little Pluto, space travel of the final frontier and Vulcan, I love space!
A Super Event and a Super Moon
The libration of the Moon over a single lunar month. Image credit: Tom Ruen
For all the space junkies and aspiring astronauts, the ROM is holding its first ever Space Weekend on May 5 and 6…it’s going to be out of this world!
“A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss” but the stories they can tell…
Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology
Age Before Beauty: The Acasta Gneiss and Jack Hills Conglomerate
Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology
The Jack Hills Conglomerate, a 3,000 million year old sedimentary rock from which the oldest, at 4,200 million years, terrestrial minerals have been found. The Jack Hills Conglomerate occurs in the Mt. Narryer and Jack Hills area of Western Australia.
Dr. A. P. Coleman (1852-1939)
Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology
Building Blocks of the ROM
Submitted by Vincent Vertolli, Assistant Curator Geology
