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Meteoritical Society

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Also known as: Society for Research on Meteorites
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Harry Y. McSween
Professor of Geology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Author of Meteorites and Their Parent Planets and Fanfare for Earth: The Origin of Our Planet and Life.
Harry Y. McSween
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1933 - present
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astronomy
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Meteoritical Society, international scientific organization that promotes research and education on meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials such as interplanetary dust, interstellar grains, and samples from the Moon. Additional areas of research include impact craters, asteroids, comets, planets, and the origin and history of the solar system. Established in 1933 as the Society for Research on Meteorites, the organization elected its founder, the astronomer Frederick C. Leonard of the University of California at Los Angeles, as its first president. Annual meetings were suspended during World War II; when they reconvened in 1946, the members adopted the name Meteoritical Society. With the ...(100 of 225 words)

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