MetSoc 2022 - Glasgow, Scotland
The 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical SOciety
Jen, Cesca, Leanne, Megan, and Natasha all attended the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society (aka 'MetSoc') in August 2022, hosted by the University of Glasgow in Scotland, UK.
There was a lot of meteorite science to be had, with no fewer than ten abstracts submitted to the meeting covering HEDs, Martian analogue materials, and all the Winchcombe discoveries!
Read the accepted abstracts for each presentation below:
Northwest Africa 6414 classified after 10 years: A complex polymict eucrite of at least nine lithological groups
A new terrestrial analogue for Martian volcanism: An unexpected match for the shergottite meteorites
Petrogenesis and isotope systematics of augite-rich Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 13467
Accessory mineral U-Th-Pb chronology of late Amazonian magmatism recorded by enriched Shergottites
Geological history of the Winchcombe meteorite - a new CM chondrite fall
A coordinated approach to investigate the heterogeneity of aqueous alteration in the Winchcombe meteorite, a CM fall
The fusion crust of the Winchcombe meteorite: Vigorous degassing during atmospheric entry
Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusion populations within the Winchcombe CM2 meteorite breccia
Cr, Cd, Si, Te, Ti, Zn and O-isotope composition of the Winchcombe (CM2) meteorite