Saturday, July 10, 1999
17.00-18.00 Wits Planetarium Public Lecture
Sunday, July 11, 1999
16.00-19.00 Wits Club (The Barn) Registration
16.30-20.00 Wits Club Welcoming Reception
Monday through Friday, July 12-16, 1999
07.30-15.00 Room SHB1A (Senate House, Level B1) Registration
Monday, July 12, 1999
09.00-11.00 Great Hall (Central Block) Formal Opening
Barringer Invited Lecture
Nier Prize Award
Leonard Medal Award
Barringer Medal Award
11.00-11.30 Great Hall (Central Block) Tea/Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 Great Hall (Central Block) Invited Talks
14.00-16.30 Room SH5 Carbonaceous Chondrites and Chondrite-forming Processes
Room SH6 Martian Rocks I
16.30-18.30 Gertrude Posel Art Gallery (Senate House, Level G) Poster Session
19.30-21.00 Metropolitan Centre, Braamfontein Civic Reception
Tuesday, July 13, 1999
08.30-12.30 Room SH5 Ordinary Chondrites
08.30-11:45 Room SH6 Large Impact Structures (and the Bushveld Complex)
11.45-12.30 Room SH6 Tektites and Impact Breccias
12.30-14.00 Room CB8 MAPS Editorial Committee
14.00-17.30 Room SH5 Moon and Differentiated Meteorites
14.00-15.15 Room SH6 Tektites and Impact Breccias (continued)
15.15-17.15
Room SH6 IMA Special Session on Mineralogy of Impact-Related Phenomena
18.30 Rand Afrikaans University, SANLAM Auditorium Public Lecture
Wednesday, July 14, 1999
08.30 (approx.) Buses depart from accommodations Full-day outing to Tswaing Crater
Thursday, July 15, 1999
08.30-11.00 Room SH5 Cosmogenic Nuclides and Trapped Noble Gases
11.00-12.00 Room SH5 New Generation of Nanoscale Analytical Techniques
Room SH6 Impact Cratering and Processes
13.30-14.00 Great Hall (Central Block) Meteoritical Society Business Meeting
14.00-15.30 Great Hall (Central Block) Plenary Lectures:  Leonard and Barringer Medalists
16.00-17.00 Wits Campus Public Lecture (to be announced)
19.30-23.00 Wanderers Club Banquet
Friday, July 16, 1999
08.30-09.45 Great Hall (Central Block) Special Plenary Session:  Thermal History of Meteorites (Invited Lectures)
10.15-12.30 Room SH5 Special Session:  Thermal History of Meteorites
Room SH6 Presolar Grains, Isotopic Anomalies, and the Early Solar System
12.30-14.15 Room CB8 IGCP Global Impact Collaboration Project Advisory Panel Meeting
14.15-15.30 Room SH5 Martian Rocks II
Room SH6 Cosmic Dust and Micrometeorites
15.45 Bleloch Museum (Department of Geology) Farewell Party and Wine Tasting
Saturday, July 17, 1999
08.30 Postconference field trips begin.
  Coaches leave from Holiday Inn Hotel. A minibus will leave from
  Westcliff Hotel to the Holiday Inn at 08.15; participants in University
  accommodations will be collected at 08.40.


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