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Past Annual Meetings

The first Meteoritical Society annual meeting was held in 1933. When available, reports of the meetings are linked by the year and meeting number in the table below. Visit this webpage to see upcoming meetings of the society. Download this file for additional details of past meetings, such a break-down of registration rates and attendee categories.

Year Meeting No. Host Institution or Place Place Start date Participants
1933 1 Field Museum Nat. Hist. Chicago, Ill., USA Mon, Aug 21, 1933  
1934 2 UC Berkeley Berkeley, Cal., USA Mon, Jun 18, 1934  
1935 3 Univ. Minnesota Minneapolis, Minn., USA Wed, Jun 26, 1935  
1936 4 UCLA Los Angeles, Cal., USA Tue, Jun 23, 1936  
1937 5 Colorado Museum Nat. Hist. Denver, Colo., USA Tue, Jun 22, 1937  
1938 6 The Mosque Richmond, Va., USA Thu, Dec 29, 1938  
1939 7 Ohio State Univ. Columbus, Ohio, USA Thu, Dec 28, 1939  
1941 8 Museum Northern Arizona Flagstaff, Ariz., USA Mon, Jun 23, 1941 20
1946 9 Arizona State College Flagstaff, Ariz., USA Mon, Sep 9, 1946  
1947 10 U. S. Grant Hotel San Diego, Calif., USA Wed, Jun 18, 1947  
1948 11 Univ. New Mexico Albuquerque, N. M., USA Tue, Sep 7, 1948  
1949 12 Univ. Southern California Los Angeles, Cal., USA Tue, Sep 6, 1949  
1950 13 Museum Northern Arizona Flagstaff, Ariz., USA Tue, Sep 5, 1950  
1951 14 Univ. Southern California Los Angeles, Cal., USA Mon, Jun 18, 1951  
1952 15 Univ. New Mexico Albuquerque, N. M., USA Tue, Sep 2, 1952 20
1953 16 Univ. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Penn., USA Wed, Sep 2, 1953  
1954 17 UC Berkeley Berkeley, Cal., USA Tue, Dec 28, 1954 10
1955 18 Univ. New Mexico Albuquerque, N. M., USA Sun, Sep 11, 1955 20
1956 19 Indiana Univ. Bloomington, Ind., USA Tue, Sep 4, 1956 7
1957 20 UCLA Los Angeles, Cal., USA Mon, Sep 2, 1957 28
1958 21   Winslow, Ariz., USA Sun, Aug 31, 1958  
1959 22 Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs. Cambridge, Mass., USA Thu, Sep 10, 1959 >40
1960 23 Univ. Southern California Los Angeles, Cal., USA Wed, Aug 31, 1960 11
1961 24 Maria Mitchell Obs. Nantucket I., Mass., USA Fri, Jun 16, 1961 25
1962 25 New Mexico Inst. Mining & Tech. Socorro, N. M., USA Tue, Sep 4, 1962  
1963 26   Ottawa, Ont., Canada Mon, Oct 7, 1963  
1964 27 Arizona State Univ. Tempe, Ariz., USA Fri, Oct 30, 1964  
1965 28   Odessa, Tex., USA    
1966 29 Smithsonian Institution Washington D. C., USA    
1967 30 NASA Ames Research Center Moffet Field, Calif., USA    
1968 31 Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs. Cambridge, Mass., USA    
1969 32 Manned Space Craft Center Houston, Tex., USA    
1970 33 Goddard Space Flight Ctr. Skyland, Va., USA    
1971 34 Mineralogische Institut T_bingen, West Germany   155
1972 35 Univ. Chicago Chicago, Ill., USA    
1973 36 ETH Davos, Switzerland    
1974 37 UCLA Los Angeles, Cal., USA Wed, Aug 7, 1974  
1975 38 Universit_ Frangois Rabelais Tours, France    
1976 39 Lehigh Univ. Bethlehem, Penn., USA Mon, Oct 18, 1976  
1977 40 Cambridge Univ. Cambridge, UK Mon, Jul 25, 1977 275
1978 41 Laurentian Univ. Sudbury, Ont., Canada Mon, Aug 14, 1978  
1979 42 Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik Heidelberg, West Germany Mon, Sep 3, 1979 270
1980 43 UC San Diego La Jolla, Cal., USA Mon, Sep 1, 1980  
1981 44 Universit_t Bern Bern, Switzerland Mon, Aug 17, 1981  
1982 45 Washington Univ. St. Louis, Mo., USA Mon, Sep 13, 1982  
1983 46 Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie Mainz, West Germany Mon, Sep 5, 1983  
1984 47 Univ. New Mexico Albuquerque, N. M., USA Mon, Jul 30, 1984  
1985 48 Universit_ de Bordeaux Bordeaux, France Mon, Jul 15, 1985  
1986 49 American Museum Nat. Hist. New York, N. Y., USA Mon, Sep 22, 1986  
1987 50 Univ. Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Mon, Jul 20, 1987  
1988 51 Univ. Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark., USA Mon, Jul 18, 1988  
1989 52 University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Mon, Jul 31, 1989  
1990 53 Western Australia Museum Perth, Australia Mon, Sep 17, 1990 193
1991 54 Doubletree Hotel Monterey, Cal., USA Mon, Jul 22, 1991  
1992 55 Univ. Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark Mon, Jul 27, 1992 273
1993 56 US Geological Survey Vail, Colo., USA Mon, Jul 19, 1993 296
1994 57 Congress Palace Prague, Czech Rep Mon, Jul 25, 1994 285
1995 58 Smithsonian Institution Washington, D. C., USA Mon, Sep 11, 1995 351
1996 59 Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Germany Mon, Jul 22, 1996 350
1997 60 Univ. Hawaii Maui, Hawaii, USA Mon, Jul 21, 1997 317
1998 61 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Mon, Jul 27, 1998 323
1999 62 Univ. the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa Mon, Jul 12, 1999 227
2000 63 Univ. Chicago Chicago, Ill., USA Mon, Aug 28, 2000 357
2001 64 Vatican Obs. Rome, Italy Mon, Sep 10, 2001 456
2002 65 UCLA Los Angeles, Cal., USA Mon, Jul 22, 2002 297
2003 66 Westf_lische Wilhelms Universit_t Munster, Germany Mon, Jul 28, 2003 327
2004 67 Brazilian Science & Tech. Ministry Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mon, Aug 2, 2004 194
2005 68 Univ. Tennessee Gaitlinburg, Tenn., USA Mon, Sep 12, 2005 325
2006 69 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mon, Aug 7, 2006 370
2007 70 Univ. Arizona Tucson, Ariz., USA Mon, Aug 13, 2007  
2008 71 National Inst. Polar Research Matsue, Japan Mon, Sep 8, 2008 319
2009 72 CRPG/CNRS Nancy, France   514
2010 73 American Museum Nat. Hist. New York, N. Y., USA Monday, July 26, 2010 433
2011 74 Greenwich University London, England Monday, August 8, 2011 477
2012 75 Australian National Univ. Cairns, Australia Monday, Aug 13 2012 310
2013 76 U. Alberta Edmonton, Canada Monday, July 29, 2013 299
2014 77 U. Hassan, Casabalnca Casablanca, Morocco Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 420
2015 78 U. California, Berkeley Berkely, CA, USA Monday, July 27, 2015 368
2016 79 Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany Monday, Aug. 8, 2016 497
2017 80 Univ. New Mexico Santa Fe, NM, USA Monday, July 24 2017 370
2018 81 Vernadsky Inst., RAS Moscow, Russia Monday, July 23, 2018 284
2019 82 Hokkaido Univ. Sapporo, Japan Monday, July 8, 2019 405
2021 83 Field Museum Nat. Hist. Chicago, IL, USA Monday, August 15 2021 308
2022 84 Univ. Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland, UK Monday, August 10, 2022 494
2023 85 UCLA Los Angeles, CA, USA Monday, August 14, 2023 342
2024 86 Université libre de Bruxelles, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels, Belgium Monday, July 29, 2024 505