OotM 1.i: initial impressions, welcome, and "Reassessing the giant impact and its alternatives"

Completely unproofed. All notes typed up during the talk they were on (I'm going to actually post them one-by-one, though, to reduce information overload). This is actually, yes, how I take notes during lectures without handouts. V happy to attempt to answer any questions you have about any of this!

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ten good things//what can't we face if we're together

1. Made it home in one piece, via some actually good interactions with people. I think particularly fondly of the woman who fussed at me a bit when I was attempting to get on with crossing a road, then suddenly realised that it was actually a kind of unpleasant non-light-controlled junction. Whereupon I grinned cheerfully, informed her that nobody was going to run me over, and so we crossed... and she grinned back and said, yes, okay, that was useful. Hurrah for turning the tables on that expectation. (Also there was a lovely Yorkshire lady being baffled and miserable at how to escape from King's Cross Underground to the mainline station, so I helped, and she was lovely too.)

2. When I got back in, there was trifle, and I got to eat it.

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OotM 1.ii: Giant impacts in the context of terrestrial planet formation

I went to a conference. I am posting my notes from the talks in the conference. Please feel encouraged to ask questions.

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