The new minerals discovered in meteorites will be presented by university scientists

15:52, July 18, 2018

The university joined the organizing committee of the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society is being held in Russia for the first time. Internationally renowned experts in meteoritics, geology, meteorite craters and astroblems, cosmochemistry, astrophysics, planetology, search and exploration of meteoritic matter will meet in Moscow on June 22 – 27.

Representatives of the Ural Federal University headed by the professor of the physical and technological institute for the first time entered the organizing committee, and they will also present their studies of such meteorites as Chelyabinsk, Seimchan, Uakit, Tsarev, as well as samples found in Antarctica, Chile, Iran and Lipetsk region.

One of the key topics is new minerals discovered in meteorites. Participants of the congress are waiting for a decision to register a meteorite found in the Lipetsk region. UrFU scientists determined its type and offered the name "Ozerki". They will also talk about the results of the work of the expeditions of the university in the deserts of Iran and Chile, about the study of Antarctic ice, the calculations of the Katay bolide and the development of the bolide network, the features of the structure of the metal phases containing carbon, the spectroscopy of meteorites and minerals, the mechanical characteristics of meteorites during impacts, the history of the meteorite expedition of the university, the cultivation of nanotubes on a meteorite substance and the modeling of the structure of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. There will be 25 reports in total.

At the Meeting of the Meteoritic Society, the best researchers will be awarded the Leonard medals (for outstanding achievements in the field of geochemistry and cosmochemistry) and Barringer medals (for achievements in the study of impact cratering).

‘After the congress, we plan to conduct a tour of the Urals for our foreign colleagues to the site of the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Perhaps, we will als be able to show the largest fragment of it, which is kept in the State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals,’ added Professor Victor Grokhovsky.

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The 81st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritic Society is timed to the 110th anniversary of the Tunguska phenomenon and the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

The conference is organized by the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations of Russia, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Federal University and Kazan Federal University.