…before the big Meteoritical Society meeting (87th MetSoc, 2025), there will be a smaller meeting, on meteor activity per se. Meteoroids 2025 is also being held now in Perth, but at Curtin University, not the Perth Convention Center.
Note that that’s meteoroids, not meteorites. A meteoroid is the body that produces a meteor (a flash of light in the sky). A meteorite is the recovered sample left if a meteoroid survives its passage through our atmosphere. As such, a meteoroid conference is relevant to this blog… kinda. The typical flash of light that we see in the sky was caused by a meteoroid not much bigger than a grain of sand. In order to drop recoverable meteorites, the prior meteor was no ordinary flash of light, but a bolide- a big, dramatic sky show, and much rarer.
In any case, see the event program:
https://meteoroids2025.gfo.rocks/assets/Meteoroids_2025_draft_program_asof_2025-07-07.pdf
Some of the more asteroid-relevant agenda items:
Francisco Ocaña Planetary Defence Activities at ESA’s Planetary Defence Office
Richard Wainscoat The Pan-STARRS search for Near-Earth Objects
Robert Weryk Pan-STARRS and the search for Potentially Hazardous Comets
David Coward The Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Research Consortium (SHARC)
George Flynn Hypervelocity Cratering and Disruption of Hydrous CM Chondrite and CI Simulant
Ian Chow Dynamical and Physical Properties of Decameter-size Earth Impactors
Patrick Shober Missing Pieces: The Atmospheric Filter and the Curious Case of Carbonaceous Chondrites
Sophie Deam A Near-Earth Object Model Calibrated to Earth Impactors
Peter Jenniskens On the origin of our meteorites in the asteroid belt
Tam Do Which meteoroids are from asteroids and which are from comets?
George Flynn Aqueous Processing on Asteroid Ryugu
Nicholas Moskovitz Meteorite Parent Bodies in the Near-Earth Object Population