The cosmic billiard - Meteorites and their impacts
We are pleased to announce a five-hours seminar on the meteoritics science with particular emphasis on importance of meteorites related with planetary formation, sample return missions from other celestial bodies, and from Antarctica. Further, the potential threat from near-earth asteroids is small, but not Zero, and as such -and celebrating the recent "Asteroid Day"- the "impact hazards" is another unique topic that will be discussed during the event. The seminar will be VIRTUAL from Agricultural University of Athens on 7th July 2022.
Virtual seminar on Meteoritics in Athens
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Title: The cosmic billiard - Meteorites and their impacts
Instructors (given in alphabetical order of the last name): Ioannis Baziotis (Agricultural University of Athens), Jasmeet K. Dhaliwal, (UC Santa Cruz, USA), Ludovic Ferrière (Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria), Robert Nicklas (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA), and Scott VanBommel (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA).
Meteorites are rare objects containing precious information on the origin of our solar system. They preserve evidence of processes that occurred on asteroids in the first few million years of our solar system’s history, but also of later stage events. These asteroids were heated by radioactive decay, leading to thermal metamorphism and release of fluids. They also experienced multiple collisions that left shock damage in the meteorites. Some of these meteorites are “finds”, often recovered in Antarctica or in hot deserts, but the most pristine ones are observed “falls” that are quickly recovered after their landing on Earth, preventing terrestrial alteration.
We are pleased to announce a five-hours short course on meteorites. We will attempt to cover from the basics of the meteoritics science up to more advanced knowledge and try to cover the following issues: 1) what a meteorite is, 2) how do we study a meteorite and why is it important, 4) how a meteorite look like and where is THE place to look for meteorites on earth, 7) how you recover a meteorite from the ice, and 8) are there any sample return missions from other celestial bodies?
The course will be solely VIRTUAL on Thursday, July 7th 2022. The course is dedicated for undergraduate, and graduate students, but more senior scientists are welcomed as well.
Registration
Participants are kindly requested to register for the 1-day seminar by filling the form (click on "Register here"). The registration fee is 10 euros and includes the attendance at the workshop. Agenda may be scaled back or cancelled in case of small enrollment (<15 participants).
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