Meteoritical Society

Meteoritical Society, international scientific organization that promotes research and education on meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials such as interplanetary dust, interstellar grains, and samples from the Moon. Additional areas of research include impact craters, asteroids, comets, planets, and the origin and history of the solar system. Established in 1933 as the Society for Research on Meteorites, the organization elected its founder, the astronomer Frederick C. Leonard of the University of California at Los Angeles, as...