Account of the 86th Annual Meeting of the @MeteoriticalSoc, promoting research and education in #PlanetarySciences. Hosted in #Brussels, #Belgium. #MetSoc2024
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#MetSoc2024 is now ended! A week full of #meteorites #impacts, #moon, #mars, #micrometeorites, #solarsystem
Thank you to all the participants, presenters and also all who made this week a success, organizers, volunteers and partners 😊
See you in #Perth for #Metsoc2025! 🇦🇺🦘🐨
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We had a great time at @MetSoc2024 in Brussels 🇧🇪 last week, presenting our latest research and catching up with colleagues from around the world. Plus @Peter_Mc_Ardle and @cathharrisonn received their Wiley Awards for the best student talks at the 2023 @MeteoriticalSoc meeting
The last talk of the Metsoc2024 sessions was just conducted by B. Fegley, in the Baudouin room. Here they discussed the composition of a "wet" Bulk Silicate Earth model at the time if the Lunar-forming impact!
M. Thiemens discusses the possibility of Lunar water being exogenous, of which might have been delivered more specifically by cometary material!
Currently ongoing in the Throne Room are the last few talks on the subject of meteorite curation. Currently is a talk by S. Yaroslavtsev on Mössbauer Spectroscopy at the ESRF synchrotron, following an upgrade! Proposals are accepted twice a year.
Continuation this afternoon of the #curation session in Throne with F. Dumas who revisits, using chemical data compilations, the classification of Iron #meteorites highlighting the importance of take into account the most possible elements
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The last talk of the curration session here in the Throne Room is being conducted by J. Gross. Their presentation covers the subject of curation of Apollo Lunar samples!
C. Corrigan discusses the changes in the protocols used to classify ordinary chondrites at the smithsonian. Indeed, 95% of meteorites received are ordinary chondrites, and as such (and for multiple reasons), it is difficult to do extensive analysis of each one.
G. Pinto discusses his work on the classification of an oriented meteorite found during a recent Antarctic Belgian expedition. Chemical, physical and 3D petrographic investigation indicates that it is an iron meteorite. These are underespresented in Antarctic collections!
A "strange" hydrated clast was claimed in a Ureilites, leading to an article on fluid circulation in the parent body! Sadly, this was a terrestrial sample... This might be due to a mix-up of samples in the lab, a simple human error, but emphasizes caution prior to making claims!
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What an amazing week for our Dr. Queenie Chan and MRes student Sian Boultby visiting the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium, for the @MetSoc2024
This conference gathers enthusiasts and experts from around the world with a passion for studying meteorites
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ALT Dr. Queenie presenting the results of her research on meteorites
ALT MRes student Sian Boultby presenting the results of her research on meteorites
ALT The entrance to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences vigilated by a lion
ALT Photo of the biggest meteorites ever found in Europe weighing approx 435 kg
Currently ongoing in the Albert II auditorium is the first session covering chondritic components! This session starts with a talk by S. Inada on kinetic isotope fractionation!
K. Amano discusses the
Iron redox state, mineralogy and petrography of two famous samples: Tagish Lake, Tarda and CI materials! These properties are dependent, among other, on the aqueous alteration pathways in both of their parent bodies. The two first differ from CI samples!
Interested in the Moon! Today is the first Lunar sessions, currently taking place at the King Baudouin room! The current talk is on the Mantle source composition through a compositional study of Lunar basalts!
Next year Metsoc is to be held in Perth, Australia! In honor of this future event, a limited amount of cute Koala stuffies are still available at the registration desk!
