Dear Meteoritical Society Members,
Here are some announcements we wanted to share, and in particular, please note the upcoming deadline for award nominations!
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Award Nominations Due by February 15 – Please consider nominating your deserving colleagues for awards! Details for all nominations can be found on the Awards webpage. Nominations for the Leonard Medal, Barringer Award, Nier Prize,and Service Award all have a deadline of 15 February 2025.
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Ed Scott Lecture Series – The next lecture will be given by Christoph Burkhardt on 27 February at 20:00 UTC, entitled Solar System Genealogy based on Isotope Anomalies in Meteorites. A link will be sent by email to members closer to the time of the talk.
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Renew your Meteoritical Society Membership – Renew your membership for 2025 here! Student membership is $10, Early Career $40, Retired $40, Standard $80. There are also options for individuals from low-income countries and for Lifetime membership.
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Latest Community Grant report
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From Samantha Aravena Gonzalez, University of Chile, on: “Meteorites: Human heritage”
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Website Is Up for the 2025 Meeting – Visit the 2025 MetSoc meeting website and plan to join the meeting in Perth, July 14 -18. Meeting organizers want to note in particular that the Meteoroids conference is also happening in Perth just a week before the MetSoc meeting.
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2023-2024 MetSoc Review – A business report highlighting activities taken over the last two years by the outgoing Executive Committee has been published in MAPS.
COMMUNITY SUBMITTED ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Tomography for Scientific Advancement (ToScA) Meeting NYC - May 13-14 2025
The fifth biennial ToScA North American (ToScANA) Symposium will take place at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
This symposium showcases the latest advances in tomography applied to a wide range of subjects, including Earth & planetary sciences, biological imaging, materials science, and cultural heritage. It comprises invited keynote and contributed talks, as well as poster presentations, an image competition, and pre-meeting workshops.
For 2025, the Planetary Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Jon Friedrich, who will discuss quantitative examination of chondritic meteorites with x-ray microtomography. We encourage all those interested in tomography of planetary materials to come present their research and learn the latest techniques and technologies available in a stimulating, cross-disciplinary setting.
Abstracts are invited on any topic involving tomography (X-ray, synchrotron, neutron, etc.). Abstract (300 words maximum) submission is now open and will close February 14th. Anticipated registration fees for the symposium will be $300 for students and $450 for non-students, plus $100 for workshops.
For more information, please visit https://www.toscainternational.org/toscana25/welcome
submitted by Romy Hanna (University of Texas at Austin)
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Ursula Marvin Featured in Children’s Book
Ursula B. Marvin, Society President 1975-1976, and long-time Society historian, is well-known for her contribution to the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, description of Allende CAIs, and description of the first Antarctic lunar meteorite, among many other pioneering contributions to our science. When she passed away, I encouraged The New York Times to publish an obituary. I was pleased when the editors agreed to do so. Only one person in 150,000 is given that privilege. The Boston Globe followed with its own obituary. I was then asked to write a short summary of Ursula’s life for Harvard Magazine. Soon thereafter, while in contact with one of Ursula’s nieces, I was asked to help another author with a children’s book about Ursula. The writer is award-winning author Sandra Neil Wallace and the art is by award-winning illustrator Nancy Carpenter. For those interested in their story about Ursula, written for children 4 to 8 years old, the new book can be pre-ordered. Hopefully the book “Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites” will inspire another generation of scientific explorers.
submitted by David A. Kring, Society Fellow '04
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2025 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague (6th-11th July 2025). We would like to draw your attention to relevant Solar System science sessions (Theme 01: From Dust to Planets)
01a - Unlocking Our Solar System's Origins with Asteroid Samples Returned by Spacecraft Missions
01b - Decoding the history of our solar system (Session in honor of Grenville Turner)
01c - Formation, Differentiation, and Evolution of Planets and Asteroids
01f - Planetary magmatism and surface processes on the Moon, Mars and beyond
The deadline for abstract submission is the 26th of February. Please note that there are grants available for early career delegates. The deadline for grant submission is the 12th of February .
submitted by Goldschmidt 2025 Theme 01 Chairs, Jessica J. Barnes (University of Arizona), Audrey Bouvier (Universität Bayreuth), Thorsten Kleine (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), Shogo Tachibana (University of Tokyo), and Goldschmidt 2025 Science Committee Member, Meenakshi Wadhwa (Arizona State University)
Share your announcements with MetSoc members – Submission guidelines and other details are given on the society's website.
Thank you for being a part of the Meteoritical Society, and please feel free to reach out to us at any time.
Guy Consolmagno, Meteoritical Society President, metsocpres@meteoritical.org
Jutta Zipfel, Meteoritical Society Secretary, metsocsec@meteoritical.org
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