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The oxygen isotope laboratory.The part of the apparatus that collects the oxygen from the samples to be examined.The mass spectrometer.Model of the ‘Ptolemy’ instrument made for the Rosetta mission.Model of the instrument made for the Beagle 2 mission to Mars.One corner of the clean room with many well labelled drawers containing research specimens.One drawer amongst many housing carefully curated meteorites.Trying to keep straight faces after the dressing up routine 🙂We had a brilliant time checking out the contents of all the drawers 🙂So many drawers and so little time……..Kieron Heard and Dr. Greenwood.Dr. Greenwood showing us more research samples from the collection.As the OU collection is mostly a research collection, many of the specimens are small.Kieron and Graham getting a closer look.Acfer 094 (C2 ungrouped)Some of the Frontier Mountains Antarctic meteorite samples.It was a privilege to spend time here looking at all these specimens.Sediment sample recovered from the Challenger expedition.Image of some of the micro meteorites found in the Challenger samples.We never got to find out what was in ‘The problem drawer’!
