Announcing the 23rd Annual Barringer Invitational Lecture Recipient Professor Amy Mainzer of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at University of Ariz
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The Barringer Crater Company is pleased to announce Professor Amy Mainzer of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, USA as the 23rd Annual Barringer Invitational Lecture recipient. Professor Mainzer’s presentation, Earth-Approaching Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk, will be presented during the Meteorological Society Conference August 14, 2023 at 7pm in UCLA's Fowler Museum. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Since 1999, the Barringer Crater Company has sponsored a public lecture delivered by an invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society. These speakers often offer a broader perspective on the role of meteoritics and planetary science in the modern world.
Every year, The Barringer Crater Company sponsors the Barringer Medal, the Barringer Invitational Lecture, and travel grants for students to attend the annual Meteoritical Society meetings. The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote research and education in planetary science with emphasis on studies of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials, including samples from space missions, that further our understanding of the origin and history of the solar system.
Professor Mainzer has a long history of success in the field of planetary science. She has worked on a number of NASA missions, including the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler mission. Her research focuses on understanding the physical and dynamical properties of asteroids and comets, and she has written extensively on the topic of planetary defense and mitigating the risk of asteroid impacts.
The Barringer Crater Company is a family-owned enterprise dedicated to the preservation of the Barringer Meteorite Crater and to furthering the understanding of the science of meteoritics.
The public is encouraged to attend Professor Mainzer’s presentation, Earth-Approaching Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk, on August 14, 2023 at 7pm in UCLA's Fowler Museum. For more information about the Barringer Crater Company and the Barringer Medal, please visit BarringerCrater.com.
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Title: Professor Amy Mainzer to Present Earth-Approaching Asteroids and Comets: Opportunity and Risk at the 23rd Annual Barringer Invitational Lecture
