Ruri no Houseki - Vol. 4 Ch. 21 - Look Up, Peer In, Search, and Onward!

[MangaDex]

 

[semi_truck]

Finally out. Sorry for the delay, been very busy with work and assignments

 

[xanon]

Nagi really has that chill professor vibe as she leads her 'students' into making discoveries.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Nagi really has that chill professor vibe as she leads her 'students' into making discoveries.

A great type of teacher who both cares for you and doesn't spoil you too much to maintain a healthy power dynamic.

 

[Legofrans]

Thank you very much for the translation! Really love this series.

 

[psuedonymous]

And this, kids, is why we point and laugh at Avi Loeb when he claims finding micrometeorites on the seafloor is evidence of aliens.

 

[fight2live]

yes! meteorite hunting! i've done this at my astronomy club back in middle school! dragging a slab of magnet around the school ground, and then analyzing the teeny tiny rocks we collected under microscope. i think we actually found a few specimens. too bad we're not allowed to bring any of them home. still, one of the coolest experience of my teenage years. man, i'm tearing up from nostalgia

 

[Draugadrottinn]

It has been known for a long time that lots of cosmic dust falls down on Earth, but most saw it as impossible to find it among all the earthly dust. The one who worked out how to do it was amateur astronomer Jon Larsen. He wrote a book called "On the Trail of Stardust" about how to do it. His reward was having an asteroid named after himself, not too bad.
Here is an article written by him. It's in his native Norwegian, but there are some nice pictures of meteorites found by him. The last four pictures are examples of non-meteorites, the very last being fireworks remains like mentioned in the chapter.