The day was excellent, Graham and Kieron attended the Lunar Science session in the morning. In the afternoon we attended a variety of presentations from the Special Session: Looking Inside: 3D Structures of Meteorites Revealed, Isotopes and Differentiated Meteorites sessions. Some personal highlights included:
- Hunt A. C. Benedix G. K. Howard L. - Pontlyfni, the Inside Story: Distribution of Metal and Sulfide Revealed by Micro-Computed Tomography (#5136).
- Hezel D. C. Elangovan P. Abel R. L. Howard L. E. Armstrong R. - 3D Structure of Carbonaceous Chondrites (#5175) - Where we given 3D glasses to observe a rotation scan of Allende with the matrix material removed.
- Warren P. H. Rubin A. E. Isa J. Thompson E. Ahn I. Choi B.-G. - Northwest Africa 6693, a Near-Ultramafic Achondrite with Low (0.6 × Chondritic) Mg/Si, Na-Feldspar, Ni-Rich Fo50 Olivine and Low Δ17O (#5230) and Irving A. J. * Tanaka R. Steele A. Kuehner S. M. Bunch T. E. Wittke J. H. Hupé G. M. - Northwest Africa 6704: A Unique Cumulate Permafic Achondrite Containing Sodic Feldspar, Awaruite and ―Fluid‖ Inclusions, With an Oxygen Isotopic Composition in the Acapulcoite-Lodranite Field (#5231). I place these together as the stones are paired, described as "enigmatic" and "hard to pigeon hole" it is clear we have a lot to learn from this intriguing meteorite.
- McDermott K. H. Greenwood R. C. Franchi I. A. Anand M. Scott E. R. D. - The Relationship Between the IIE Irons and H Chondrites: Petrological and Oxygen Isotope Constraints (#5430). The differences between certain members of the IIE irons were highlighted and evidence linking these to various H groups identified.
- Wasson J. T. Hoppe P. - Cooling Rates of IVA and IIIAB Meteorites (#5431).
I would like to thank Mark Ford for providing the original "About Us" text I used as a basis for the abstract and poster, Richard Greenwood for support in producing the abstract/poster and arranging for the poster to be printed at the OU, Luther Jackson for his work at short notice on the members map. Thank you!