Meteoritical Society

Revitalization of the Society began in the 1960s after the advent of the Space Age when the Society steadily gained members with expertise in mineralogy, petrology, isotope geochemistry, electron microprobe and neutron activation analysis, and impact dynamics. When Nininger was persuaded to rejoined in 1963, he found a renewed Society. In the election year of 1966 a group of youthful insurgents nominated an alternate slate to the proposed by the Council and won every contested seat on the Council except that of the Editor. In 1938, the Society had gained considerable prestige by its acceptance as a full Affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, but in view of its increasingly international membership and activities the Society terminated its affiliation with the AAAS in 1976. Again in response to its international status, in 1992 The Meteoritical Society affiliated with the International Union of Geological Sciences. Note from webmaster: Doubts about the sponsorship of Geochimica et Cosmochica Acta have been resolved since this was written in 1993 and the two Societies cosponsor the journal.