Meteoritics & Planetary Science

We invite your submissions to the upcoming MAPS special issue covering the Hayabusa mission and the Itokawa asteroid.
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Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, is sponsoring four $500 awards to students who gave outstanding presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Cairns, 12-17 August 2012. The council of the Meteoritical Society has approved the recommendation of the award committee that the following four students should each receive one of the awards:

Evan Groopman, Washington University, St. Louis for his talk entitled, "TiXANES and EELS of Presolar TiC Subgrains Within Low Density Supernova Graphite Grains”

Matthew Huber, University of Vienna for his talk entitled, "Distribution of Meteoritic Material in Sudbury Ejecta"

Reto Trappitsch, University of Chicago for his talk entitled, "Solar CosmicRay Irradiation of the Solar Nebula"

Kelsey Young, Arizona State University for her talk entitled, "The Age of Haughton Impact Structure as Determined by Zircon (UTh)/He Thermochronology”

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• Wide International Circulation: More than 150 institutions and over 1,000 members of The Meteoritical Society worldwide will have access to your article
• Media Coverage: Groundbreaking MAPS articles receive prime coverage—a recent article was the most shared article on BBC with over 4,000 shares in a few hours
• ScholarOne Manuscripts: This easy-to-use, Web-based submission system enables the quickest possible turnaround times, with a median time to first decision for reviewed manuscripts of only 75 days
• Author Services: Track the production of your article online and nominate colleagues to receive PDF offprints of your paper upon publication • Early View: Accepted articles will be published online before the compiled issue and are completely citable
• OnlineOpen: Allows authors to make their article freely available online to non-subscribers and allows the article to be deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive.

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