The Meteoritical Society

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Our members include over 1000 scientists and enthusiasts from 52 countries who study meteorites, cosmic dust, asteroids, comets, samples returned by space missions, impact craters, and the origins of the Solar System.

The Society organizes annual meetings and workshops. It honors outstanding scientific and service contributions and helps encourage and support young planetary scientists world-wide.

The Meteoritical Society records all known meteorites in its Meteoritical Bulletin and publishes Meteoritics and Planetary Science, a leading journal of planetary science.

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In Memoriam: David S. McKay	04/02 19:29
David S. McKay, Chief Scientist for Astrobiology at the NASA Johnson Space Center, passed away on February 20, 2013. ...
The Russian meteor of Febru...	03/07 01:41
The full, original version of the text below was written by Linda Martel and can be found at CosmoSparks. . Fragment...
Devendra Lal, 1929-2012	01/29 00:13
Devendra Lal died on December 1 at his San Diego home. He was 83. Throughout his long career, Professor Lal was know...
Magmatism, Metamorphism and...	12/18 22:53
A session on Meteorites and Planetology will be featured in the eighth meeting on Magmatism, Metamorphism, and Associ...
McKay and Wiley-Blackwell A...	09/28 06:48
The council of the Meteoritical Society is pleased to announce that Maartje Hamers has won the 2012 Gordon McKay Awar...

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