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Recent “micro- and nanopalaeomagnetic” approaches are a promising way to obtain useful data from the early solar system through microscopic magnetic imaging techniques on meteorites. Magnetic records of meteorites give insight into the presence or absence of dynamos in extra-terrestrial bodies including the protoplanetary disk, the sun, the moon, other planets, as well as asteroids, which allows to conclude how and when these bodies formed. 

Extraterrestial materials are, however, unlike any one found on Earth and currently, there is no consensus about the magnetic recording mechanism of these complex materials. I use theoretical and computational tools to assess how magnetic minerals in extraterrestrial materials record and preserve magnetisations that may give insight into the evolution of the solar system.