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European Research Council Funds Planetologist Prof. Dr. Lena Noack with ERC Consolidator Grant

Congratulations to Randolph Röhlen on receiving the Wiley Award for 2022!

Summer School Braunschweig
October 4-8, 2022

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Congratulations to Kai Wünnemann on receiving the Barringer Award for 2022!

Scientists from Freie Universität Berlin, among others, have published the results of a new determination of the crystallization age of 4566.6 ± 0.6 million years for a meteorite called Erg Chech 002 (EC 002).

Annual Retreat Potsdam
May 4-6, 2022

Dwarf planet Ceres: Organic compounds and salt deposits in the Urvara impact crater

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Congratulations to Christian Riedel on his doctorate!

Congratulations to Stamatis Flemetakis on his doctorate!

Congratulations to Gianluigi Ortenzi on his doctorate!

Congratulations to Jan Hellmann on receiving the Pellas-Ryder award for 2021!

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Television report about the Flensburg meteorite as part of the german TV science program ZDF terra Xpress. With the participation of Prof. Addi Bischoff, Dr. Markus Patzek and Ulla Heitmann of the University of Münster.

Congratulations to Daniel Wahl on his doctorate!

Congratulations to Jan Hellmann on his doctorate!

Congratulations to Tiantian Liu on her doctorate!

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Congratulations to Markus Patzek on his doctorate!

Congratulations to Csilla Orgel on her doctorate!

Researchers at the University of Münster confirm: "Blaubeuren" is the result of a cosmic collision.

The Moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this catastrophe – the Moon.

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BBC magazine “Sky at Night” published an article “How scientists estimate the ages of planetary surfaces” about the initial results of the TRR A2 project taking place in the University of Münster. The article is based on the work of Wajiha Iqbal and Harald Hiesinger originally published in the journal “Icarus”.

Second funding period approved
TRR 170 receives another four years of support and started January 2020.

Meteorite Flensburg
First results on the Flensburg Meteorite fall

Television report by 3Sat about the finding of the Flensburg meteorite and its implications for the origin of water on Earth (in German).

Planetary researchers of the University of Münster show: The meteorite contains minerals that were formed with the participation of water in the early phase of the solar system.

Congratulations to Robbin Visser on his doctorate!

The Goldschmidt Conference 2019 takes place in Barcelona (Spain) from August 18 - 23, 2019. 

Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a planetary transit. Youtube

How did Earth evolve from a hostile planet that was covered by lava to a habitable planet ...

FU Berlin press release here, Nature 

Nature press release: Findings of planetologists in Münster contradict hypothesis of a late cometary origin ...