Final Announcement

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On behalf of the Meteoritical Society we are delighted to invite you to attend the 60th Meteoritical Society Meeting, to be held from Monday, July 21, through Friday, July 25, 1997, at the Maui Prince Hotel on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawai'i. The meeting is being hosted by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, which is in Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

We have received 275 abstracts. The Program Committee has scheduled 201 oral presentations, 58 poster presentations, and 16 title-only abstracts. Plenary sessions will consist of presentations on presolar grains in meteorites, global effects of the K/T bolide, and results of current missions.

Oral Presentations: Oral sessions will be held in two parallel sessions each day in the Wailea Salon and the Makena Salon of the Maui Prince Hotel from Monday morning through Friday noon, except for Wednesday afternoon. Each oral presentation will be limited to 10 minutes. Available projection equipment for oral presentations includes two 35-mm slide projectors, two overhead projectors for transparencies, two screens, a pointer, a lectern, and a lavaliere microphone. A slide-preview room will be located at the rear of the Makena Salon. Presenters should fill out a Dual-Projection Visual Aids Schedule, which was enclosed in the final announcement and will be available at the meeting, and give it to the projectionists before the first talk of each session.

Poster Presentations: There will be a formal poster session from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, in the Hale Makena. Beer and wine will be available outside the Prince Ballroom from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and in Hale Makena from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Posters will remain on display through the entire meeting. Authors may install their posters beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 20. Poster display space is 4' x 4' (122 cm x 122 cm). The background color of the boards is gray. Posters can be mounted using velcro tabs, which will be available in the Hale Makena. All posters must be removed by 10:00 a.m. on Friday, July 25, or the poster material will be discarded.

Abstract Volume and Online Services: The meeting abstracts will be a supplemental issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science. It will be mailed to all regular Meteoritics & Planetary Science subscribers and, in addition, will be part of the registration package at the meeting.

For those staying at the Maui Prince Hotel, the Prince Kids Club offers a program for children 5-12 years old. Although charges have now been instituted for the morning program for regular guests, the Maui Prince Hotel will offer the Prince Kids Club on a complimentary basis from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for meeting participants only, from July 17-19 and from July 21-25. An extended program from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. is available for $20 per child, including lunch. Limited space is available; therefore, reservations are required by July 1. Call the hotel at 1-800-368-8444 and request the Concierge Desk at the Maui Prince Hotel.

E-mail access will be provided by the NASA Integrated Systems Network during the Meteoritical Society Meeting and Chondrites Workshop.

Telephone messages for meeting participants should be left on the hotel voice-mail service provided to each room. During sessions, urgent messages can be left at the meeting registration desk at 808-875-5875.

The Maui Prince Hotel is located in an isolated area at the end of the road in Makena, about 20 miles (~30 km) south of Kahului Airport (a 35-minute drive). Transportation between the hotel and airport is available by taxi, shuttle service, and rental car. Taxis are expensive (at least $50). Shuttle service is efficient and can be arranged in advance. The price depends on the number of passengers and ranges from $20 for one passenger to about $6 per person if there are 7 or more passengers in the van. The two main services take reservations, but claim to arrive within 10 minutes of a call from the airport between 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. The services are SpeediShuttle (808-875-8070) and Airport Shuttle (808-661-6667).

We expect that most participants will arrange to share rental cars because there is no public transportation in the Kihei-Wailea-Makena area of Maui and few restaurants outside the Maui Prince Hotel within easy walking distance. Discounted rates have been negotiated with four rental car companies (Budget, Dollar, Hertz, and National). Weekly rates are listed below. A 4.167% state excise tax plus a $2 per day state surcharge will be added; use the group codes and phone numbers listed to qualify for these special rates.

Most airlines fly directly to Honolulu, 100 miles (~160 km) west of Maui, but some fly directly into Kahului Airport. Interisland service is provided by Aloha and Hawai'ian Airlines. The official airline for the meeting is American Airlines, which has several direct flights to Maui from the U.S. mainland and numerous flights to Honolulu. They are offering discount rates for participants in the U.S. and Canada: a 5% discount on all fares and a 10% discount on 7-day-advance-purchase fares. For reservations call 800-433-1790 and give the STAR ID number S 8377AB, or give this number to your travel agent. Early reservations are recommended.

Besides exploring Maui and relaxing on the beautiful beaches, there are many organized activities for visitors: a snorkeling adventure to Molokini, including lunch and a sail in a catamaran, which departs from the hotel's beach; tours by minibus to Haleakala and Hana; and helicopter tours of Maui. Explore the depths by submarine. Swim and snorkel off the island of Lanai. All these activities and more can be arranged in the lobby of the Maui Prince Hotel. There will be no technical sessions scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, so meeting attendees and their guests will be free to participate in any of the activities available in the area.

Tours will be available on Wednesday, July 23, beginning at 2:00 p.m. to the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), which is a state-of-the-art supercomputing facility located in Kihei and managed by the University of New Mexico. Ranked as one of the top computer centers in the world, MHPCC provides Department of Defense, government, commercial, and academic users with access to massively parallel computing resources, high-performance storage, expert support staff, and educational programs. MHPCC has a special focus in the areas of image and signal processing, modeling and simulation, and data mining and parallel databases. Sign up for the tour at the registration desk by 12:00 noon on Wednesday. You must provide your own transportation to the center.

Registration will be from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 20, near the Hale Makena and will be followed by a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Pu'u Ola'i Gardens of the Maui Prince Hotel. The Annual Banquet will be held on Wednesday, July 23, in the Pu'u Ola'i Gardens, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The dinner buffet will include vegetarian options. Prior to the banquet there will be a cocktail party in the Holokai Pavilion followed by the presentation of the Leonard and Barringer Medals and the Nier Prize in the Prince Ballroom.

Lunches: Special subsidized buffet lunches will be available to registered participants outside the Prince Ballroom on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday (price including taxes and gratuity: $12.00).

Haleakala Crater: This trip is already fully booked, and information will be sent directly to those who have registered for it.

Youngest Lava Flow on Maui: On Wednesday afternoon, July 23, there will be a hike to see the vents and flow of the ~1790 AD East Maui Volcano southwest rift zone eruption. This flow is only a few minutes from the conference hotel and we will leave just after lunch in whatever rental cars we can round up. The hike is about 2 miles round trip and relatively flat (but the weather will be hot). The flow is a rather spectacular ankaramite and the vents are very interesting. We will leave from the hotel lobby at 1:30 p.m., sharing rental cars, and will return to the hotel about 4:00 p.m.

Kilauea Volcano: This trip is fully booked, and information will be sent directly to those who have registered for it.

Don't leave valuables in unattended cars. Use sunscreen with a high SPF (>25) to prevent sunburn and wear a wide-brimmed hat. Swimming at some beaches may be dangerous under certain conditions; read the warning signs. Informal wear, such as aloha attire, is the norm for Hawai'i. For those participating in hikes, bring good hiking boots or walking shoes and 1 liter of drinking water.