Dr Simon Foster acts as the Outreach officer in the Physics Department at Imperial College London. On February 8th, he visited St Luke’s primary school to give students from years 4 and 5 a fascinating glimpse into the topic of Earth and Space.
Simon brought in pieces of the Cluster satellite which exploded on launch in 1996 which was designed to study the Sun’s magnetic field. Simon also brought in pieces of meteorites which have crashed into planet Earth, some of which were pieces of a planet that used to exist between Mars and Jupiter that was torn apart by gravitational forces. Not only that, Simon managed to bring in an incredibly rare Martian meteorite, which was blasted off the planet due to an asteroid collision millions of years ago.
For the children this was an amazing experience as they managed to hold a piece of the red planet and a destroyed planet!