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> Subject: {MPML} World's Leading Meteorite Experts Convene in
> Tucson Aug. 13 - 17
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> World's Leading Meteorite Experts Convene in Tucson Aug. 13 - 17
> University of Arizona
> July 27, 2007
>
> N O T A E
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> Contact Information
> A.J. Timothy Jull
> 520-621-6816
> jull@...
>
> Timothy D. Swindle
> 520-621-4128
> tswindle@...
>
> Related Web sites
> MetSoc 2007 <http://metsoc2007.org>
> Program and science abstracts
> <http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2007>
>
> About 350 meteorite experts are expected to convene in Tucson for the
> 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society Aug. 13 - 17.
> Coincidentally, this week also promises to be one of the best Perseid
> meteor shower shows seen from Tucson in years, say University
> of Arizona
> scientists hosting the event.
>
> The Meteoritical Society is the world's largest organization
> devoted to
> the study of meteorites and other extraterrestrial material. The
> non-profit scholarly organization was founded in 1933 and now includes
> members from 33 countries. They specialize in planetary science topics
> that include meteorites, cosmic dust, asteroids and comets, natural
> satellites, planets, impacts and the origins of the solar system. The
> Society publishes the Meteoritical Bulletin, which records all known
> meteorites, and a leading planetary science journal, Meteoritics and
> Planetary Science, http://meteoritics.org/ which is edited at
> UA offices
> in Tucson.
>
> The 70th annual meeting opens during the night when the
> Perseids meteor
> shower is at its maximum, during new moon. Meeting organizers
> will kick
> off the conference with an Aug. 12 meteor shower viewing party (for
> conferees only) under the dark skies at the meeting site, the JW
> Marriott Starrpass Resort & Spa, 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd.
>
> Scientists will give more than 300 talks and poster presentations on
> topics ranging from early solar system formation and planetary impact
> cratering to astrobiology and results from the recent Genesis and
> Stardust space missions, said UA geosciences Professor Timothy Jull,
> chairman of the organizing committee. The complete program
> and abstracts
> are online at Program and science abstracts
> <http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2007>
>
> Meeting highlights include:
>
> # Wednesday, Aug. 15 - Peter Smith of UA's Lunar and
> Planetary Laboratory,
> principal investigator for the Phoenix Scout Mission to Mars,
> will give
> the society's Barringer Lecture. The Phoenix Mission is to launch Aug.
> 3. The spacecraft will land in Mars' northern arctic region
> in May 2008
> and use a robotic arm and deck of sophisticated science instruments to
> explore questions on Mars' potential to support life, the history of
> water and changes in Martian climate.
>
> * Monday, Aug. 13 - A special session on Arizona's Meteor Crater
> (Barringer Crater) and other impact craters.
> * Monday, Aug. 13 - A special session on advances in dating the
> exposure ages and irradiation history of meteorites by the
> 'cosmogenic radionuclides' they contain. Cosmogenic
> radionuclides
> are radioactive elements produced by cosmic rays in space. The
> university's NSF-Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Facility,
> which Jull directs, focuses much research in this area.
> * Monday, Aug. 13 - A special session on protoplanetary dust.
> * Tuesday, Aug. 14 - A special session on chondrules and chondrule
> formation. Chondrules are small grains of minerals found in some
> meteorites. Scientists believe the minerals formed as hot gases
> condensed during solar system formation.
>
> The UA geosciences department and UA Lunar and Planetary
> Laboratory are
> hosting the conference. UA conference sponsors also include
> the College
> of Science; the UA departments of planetary sciences geosciences and
> physics; the NSF-Arizona AMS Laboratory, the Southwest
> Meteorite Center,
> Steward Observatory; the Life and Planets Astrobiology Center
> (LaPLACE)
> and the University of Arizona Press. Meeting sponsors also include the
> Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, the Houston-based Lunar and
> Planetary Institute, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Barringer Crater Company,
> the Tucson Visitors and Convention Bureau and others.
>
> During the last decade, the Meteoritical Society has held its annual
> meeting in cities including Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Rome (Vatican
> Observatory), Chicago, Johannesburg and Dublin. The next two meetings
> will be held in Japan and France.
>
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