Dear Meteoritical Society Members,
Here are some news items and announcements we wanted to share:
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LPSC26 booth - The Meteoritical Society will have a booth at LPSC26 to recruit new members. If you would like to help staff it, please fill out the volunteer form. Any amount of time is greatly appreciated. Please email Tom Burbine (tburbine@mtholyoke.edu) or Imene Kerraouch (imene.kerraouch@nasa.gov) with any questions.
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Host the 2030 Annual Meeting! – We are welcoming invitations for interest in hosting the 92nd annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society in 2030! See this announcement for details, with a deadline of April 15.
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12 New Endowment Grants Awarded – The Meteoritical Society Endowment Fund supports a variety of activities through grants that advance the goals of the society, with selections made twice a year. The recently selected grant efforts are:
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Community Grants - more details in this news story:
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Marian Sapah (Ghana) The Traveling Telescope Ghana: Extending Planetary and Space Science
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Alexandre Corgne (Chile) Creation of a permanent meteorite exhibition linked to the Pelom Kura
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Sujoy Ghosh (India) MetMeSS-6 – National Symposium on Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites
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Research Grants - more details in this news story:
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Roberto Borriello (Italy) Shock-induced metasomatism in the CO chondrite parent body explored through CAIs in the FRO 90006 chondrite.
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Shivanshu Dwivedi (India) Second Oldest Suevite Breccia Exposure from the Dhala Impact Structure, India: A first Report.
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Chloe Kadri (UK) A comprehensive survey of meteorite flux to Earth using the Global Meteor Network (GMN).
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Imene Kerraouch (USA) Tracing Fine-Grained 16O-Rich Refractory Dust in the Inner Solar System.
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Randolph Maier (UK) Oxygen isotopic composition of relict stony meteorites in the Morokweng impact melt sheet, South Africa.
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Nozomi Matsuda (USA) Petrography and oxygen isotopic compositions of type I and type II chondrules from CA chondrites.
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Neha (India) Coordinated Raman and NanoSIMS isotopic studies of organic matter in HED achondrites.
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Ashley Rogers (Australia) New meteorites from Western Australia: a case study on the effects of re-crystallisation for determining the classification of iron meteorites.
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Ronica Sims (USA) Development of Fe-rich Silicate Standards to enable Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Bennu and Ryugu Particles.
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Ed Scott Lecture Series – Two lectures are now available on the MetSoc website:
– lecture by Sara Russell entitled The abundance and importance of Type 1 material in the Solar System
– lecture by Rhian Jones entitled Chondrules and their importance in the early Solar System
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Make Your Plans for the 2026 Meeting – Visit the meeting website and plan to join the meeting in Frankfurt, August 9 though August 14.
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In Memoriam – We are saddened to report the passing of three of our members: John Hume Jones (1952-2025), Vale H. Ralph Uhlherr (1934-2025), and John W. Larimer (1939 – 2026). We thank all who contributed to their remembrances.
COMMUNITY SUBMITTED ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Deadline for Applications for the The Barringer Family Fund coming up - New Opportunities!
The Barringer Family Fund supports research related to field work at known or suspected terrestrial impact sites. Grant funds may be used to assist with travel and subsistence costs for field work, as well as laboratory work, computer modeling, various analyses, as well as conference presentation of results related to field work.
Two different types of grants are provided:
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Student and PostDoc Project Research Grant: This grant ($2,500 - $5,000) is for upper-level master and PhD students, and post-doctoral researchers (up to 3 years after completion of the PhD) who are enrolled in formal university programs or associated with established public research institutions.
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Early Career Research Grant: This opportunity may provide a $10,000 grant for early career scientists affiliated with an established university program or a public research institution. Proposals will describe a future research project focused on terrestrial impact structure(s) or processes.
The deadline for submission of proposals and supporting letters is April 1, 2026.
For further information on eligibility and instructions on how to prepare and submit proposals, see: https://meteoritical.org/grants/barringer-family-fund-meteorite-impact-research
Submitted by Christian Koeberl (University of Vienna) and the Barringer Family
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Survey gathering perspectives from across the Cosmochemistry and Planetary Science community
I invite you to complete a short anonymous survey gathering perspectives from across the Cosmochemistry and Planetary Science community. The results will inform a forward looking review chapter for the upcoming book Meteorites and the Early Solar System III (Sep 2027).
The questionnaire takes approximately 5-10 minutes, all questions are optional, and no identifying information is collected. Even brief responses are very valuable.
If you consider your research to be even slightly related to Planetary Science or Cosmochemistry, your input would be especially welcome; otherwise, please feel free to disregard this invitation.
You can access the survey here:
I would be grateful if you could also share the link with relevant colleagues or mailing lists.
Many thanks for your time and input.
Submitted by Dr. Martin D. Suttle (The Open University, UK)
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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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