You are cordially invited to attend the 86th annual meeting of The Meteoritical Society, which will take place from July 28 through August 2nd, 2024, at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting is hosted by the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Institute of Natural Sciences.
The scientific program can be found here.
You can also check the Author Index.
Presentation guidelines can be found here.
We are pleased to welcome Véronique Dehant for the Barringer Lecture: “Does the Red Planet have a heart? Results from the Mars InSight mission”
Oral, poster and plenary sessions will be hosted at the Palace of the Academies. Located next of the Royal Palace, the Palace of the Academies was built between 1823 and 1825 for the Prince of Orange and became the residence of the Royal Academy of Sciences and art and Royal Academy of Medicine in 1876.
The Barringer lecture will take place at the Plaza Hotel, famous for its charming Belle Epoque decorated theater. The banquet will be organized as a walking dinner at the Institute for Natural Sciences, where you will be able to enjoy the tasty Belgian cuisine in the largest dinosaur gallery of Europe, known for the spectacular Iguanodon fossil skeletons.
Fieldtrips on Wednesday afternoon include a visit to the Atomium, a landmark modernist building constructed for the 1958 World Fair that represents a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion time, but also to the European Parliament, the battlefield of Waterloo where the fate of Europe was tragically determined, or the city of Ghent, labelled Belgium’s best kept secret by Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler in 2023.
Post-conference tours include a tour on the WWI and WWII battlefields located in Belgium, and a visit to some of the world-renowned Trappist beer abbeys.
On Saturday July 27 (all day) and Sunday 28 (morning) a workshop dedicated to the curation of extraterrestrial samples will be organized, with a focus on both meteorites and returned samples. This will be organized at the Institute of Natural Sciences.
Chairs : Aurore Hutzler (ESA) and Tomohiro Usui (JAXA).
Registration fees: 60 € (early bird), including coffee breaks for one day and half
A fieldtrip to Morocco will be organized from 19 to 26 of July 2024 to the participants of the MetSoc meeting in Brussels for a group of 30 to 40 participants.
Preliminary Program
Excursion fees 1200 Euros (travel fees between Brussels and Casablanca not included)
For more information and booking please contact Prof. Hasnaa Chennaoui chennaoui_h@yahoo.fr