When did you first develop a passion for space and meteorites?
I was mad about science from a very early age. My dad was a keen amateur astronomer who was always setting up his telescope, often fruitlessly, in Surrey, and one of my earliest memories is of my dad waking me up in the middle of the night, wrapping me in a blanket and carrying me out to the lawn to look at the Moon and Jupiter through the telescope. I had a cosmic aspect instilled into my childhood almost from the beginning, and my unconventional parents supported my growing passion.
Did you often go hunting for meteorites?
I saw meteorites for the first time at the Geological Museum in London, which is now part of the Natural History Museum, and I would love to blame it for my very unusual life. I would implore my mother
