PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
TOPICS OF WORKSHOPS (under discussion) Sunday, July 22 before registration and welcome party:
- Experiment and Modelling in Investigation of Extraterrestrial material
- NEOs Hazard: Multidisciplinary Approach
Opening ceremony (Monday, July 23, 9.00 am):
Invited lecture (Monday, July 23, after opening ceremony)
Barringer (public) lecture (Monday, July 23, ~ 6.30 pm)
Special Sessions:
- Special session dedicated to the famous and largest meteorite falls in Russia, (110th anniversary of the Tunguska phenomena and 5th anniversary of the Chelyabinsk fall)
- Surface and interior dynamics of meteorite parent bodies
- Astronomic models of the chondrule formation and coagulation of dust particles in protoplanetary disk.
Scientific Sessions:
- Presolar Grains and Isotopic anomalies
- Radionuclides and Early Solar System Chronology
- Interplanetary Dust Particles, Micrometeorites and Stardust
- CAIs and Other Refractory Materials
- Formation of Chondrules and Chondrite Precursors
- Volatiles in the Solar System
- Carbonaceous chondritesand their parent body evolution
- Organic material in Meteorites, Distribution and Evolution
- Differentiated Bodies in the Asteroid Belt: Psyche, Vesta, and Ceres
- Achondrites
- Martian meteorites
- Lunar samples and lunar meteorites, origin and evolution of the Moon
- Iron and Stony-Iron meteorites
- Parent Body Processes
- Isotopic, Chemical and Experimental Studies of meteorites
- Exposure history and Delivery Meteorites from Asteroids
- Asteroids and Comets
- Physical Properties of Meteorites
- Impact Cratering Processes and Dynamic of Small Bodies
- Shock metamorphism
- Developments in Analytical Technique for Meteorite Analyses and Returned Sample Analysis
- Meteorite Fall/Finds
- Others