Annual Meetings of the Meteoritical Society

Upcoming Meetings

2025 (87^thAnnual Meeting) July 14-18, Perth, Australia
2026 (88^thAnnual Meeting) August 9-14, Frankfurt, Germany
2027 (89^th Annual Meeting) July 26-30, Flagstaff, USA (hosted by ASU)
2028 (90^th Annual Meeting) July 30 - August 4 (tentative dates), Antofagasta, Chile

How to Host the Next MetSoc Meeting

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Mail the form to the Meteoritical Society Secretary: Metsocsec@gmail.com
Deadline: April 15 of each year

Past Meetings

The first Meteoritical Society meeting was held in 1933. Visit this webpage to see information about past annual meetings.

Public Barringer Lectures at the Meteoritical Society Meetings

The Barringer lecture is held yearly in association with the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society. The Barringer lecture is a public event aimed at sharing space science to engage and inspire a public audience.

2024: Véronique Dehant, Does the Red Planet Have a Heart? Results from the Mars InSight mission.
2023: Amy Mainzer, Earth-Approaching Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk
2022: Elliot Sefton-Nash, Early Mars - A World Record
2021: Leslie Rogers, Glimpsing the Exoplanet Composition Distribution
2020 (No lecture as annual meeting wasn't held.)
2019: Kazuyuki Shiraishi ,The Search for Antarctic Meteorites: Fifty Years from the Discovery of the Yamato Meteorites
2018: Guy Consolmagno SJ, Philosophy of Meteorites: Awe, Faith and Data
2017: Harrison Hagan Schmitt, Return To the Moon
2016: Mark McCaughrean, Rosetta: To Catch a Comet
2014: Philippe Taquet, Meteorites and Dinosaurs
2013: Peter Brown, Fireballs Producing Meteorites: from Tagish Lake to Chelyabinsk
2012: Stuart Ross Taylor, Origin of Planetary Systems
2011: Martin Rees, Big Bang to Biosphere
2010: Sean C. Solomon, Exploring Mercury with the MESSENGER Spacecraft
2009: Jean Cave, She called me "My Martian"
2008: Manabu Kato, Kaguya Mission Challenges to Origin and Evolution of the Moon
2007: Peter Smith, The Phoenix Mission Explores the Martian Arctic
2006: Michel Mayor, From Gaseous Giants to Rocky Planets
2005: Jeff Hester, Understanding Our Origins: Formation of Sun-like Stars in HII Region Environments
2004: A. P. Guimarães, Magnetism in the Universe
2003: Rainer Albertz, The Weal and Woe of Civilization: A Modern Message of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
2002: Michael C. Malin, Highlights from the Mars Global Survey Orbital Camera
2001: Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter
2000: Torrence Johnson, The Moons of Jupiter: Discovered by Galileo, the Man - Explored by Galileo, the Spacecraft
1999: Clark Chapman, The NEAR Mission: Insights about Asteroidal Cratering