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The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote research and education in planetary science with emphasis on studies of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the Solar System.
The Gordon A. McKay Award is an annual prize given by the Meteoritical Society to the student who gives the best oral presentation at its annual meeting. [1] This award honors the memory of Gordon A. McKay (1945–2008), a NASA planetary scientist specializing in lunar and Martian geochemistry. It was established in 2008 and comes with a prize ...
Rochette is encouraged enough about the find that he presented the scenario at the recent Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Brussels and hopes a trip to the site can finalize the ...
He has organized several international research conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in 1989 in Vienna, Austria; the meeting on Catastrophic Events & Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, in 2000 in Vienna, Austria; Geological Society of America Field Forum on "Bolide Impacts on Wet Targets" in Nevada and Utah ...
In honor of Daniel Barringer’s memory, in 1982 the Meteoritical Society established an award, the Barringer Medal, [4] given at the Meteoritical Society annual meeting, to recognize outstanding work in the field of impact crater research which is sponsored by the Barringer Crater Company.
Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society: United States: Outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of planetary science [19] Gordon A. McKay Award: Meteoritical Society: United States: Student who gives the best oral presentation at its annual meeting [20] Gordon Myers Amateur Achievement Award: Astronomical Society of ...
Meteoritical Society annual meeting, held during the Northern Hemisphere summer, generally alternating between North America and Europe. European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), held annually around September at a location within Europe. Smaller workshops and conferences on particular fields occur worldwide throughout the year.
Leonard was an astronomer from his teenage years, founding the Society for Practical Astronomy in 1909. [2] In 1933 he founded The Society for Research on Meteorites, which later became known as the Meteoritical Society. He was its first president and was the Editor of the Society's journal for the next 25 years. [3]