The British and Irish Meteorite Society

The programme for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, which will take place between 5th and 9th December 2011, has been published. You can log on as a guest and search the programme and read the abstracts - there's plenty to interest those with a deep fascination with meteorites. The following small selection include contributions from UK and Irish institutions:

P23C-1725. Early Planetesimals: Making Models to Match Meteorites
Ian Sanders; Stephen M. Jones

P23E-10. Methane Emission from the Murchison Meteorite Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation and its Potential Impact on the Martian Atmosphere
Frank Keppler; Ivan Vigano; Andy McLeod; Ulrich Ott; Thomas Roeckmann

P31B-1709. EBSD analysis of the Shergottite Meteorites: New developments within the technique and their implication on what we know about the preferred orientation of Martian minerals
Natasha Stephen; Gretchen K. Benedix; Phil Bland; Jana Berlin; Tobias Salge; Daniel Goran

P32B-03. Maximizing the science return from 3.3 g of martian meteorite: A consortium study of olivine-phyric shergottite NorthWest Africa 6234
Justin Filiberto; Feargus Abernethy; Ian B. Butler; Julia Cartwright; Emily J. Chin; James M. Day; Cyrena Goodrich; Monica Grady; Juliane Gross; Ian Franchi; Christopher D. Herd; Simon P. Kelley; Ulrich Ott; Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland; Susanne P. Schwenzer; Allan H. Treiman

MR51B-2172. Low-frequency high-temperature behaviour of Fe-Ni alloys and octahedrite meteorite at the bcc-fcc transition
Zhenwei Peng; Simon A. Redfern