Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Meteoritics & Planetary Science ( MAPS) is an English international and non-commercial science journal and the general body of the Meteoritical Society. This is also the publisher.

Topics covered include, without limitation Asteroids, comets, impact craters, interplanetary dust, interstellar medium, moon rocks, meteors, meteorites, natural satellites, planets, tektites, and the origin and history of the solar system. The magazine also provides a central forum for research on related topics in the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology and physics. The most important thing for many scientists MAPS publication is an annual publication usually supplement that Meteoritical Bulletin, with catalogs, inventories, and the routine description of new meteorites. This bulletin with the tested and approved by the Nomenclature Committee lists all submitted and classified discoveries and new cases is the standard reference work for inventory and the nomenclature of all meteorites.

MAPS pursues, like other science journals and, with the publication of submitted articles, a four - eyes principle. All articles, reports and comments are proofread and checked before being released by recognized experts in the specialized field of the author and the editor in chief. Articles submitted to be evaluated in terms of scientific originality, the suitability of the topic in the context of journals and their value to the scientific discourse. This verification process takes at MAPS usually one month. If the author wishes the impression of colored graphics, this is possible at his own expense.

MAPS was first published in 1953 and now has subscribers in 44 countries, 55 % of our readers are based outside the United States. The Journal is published in 12 issues a year, and the annual subscription cost for scientific institutes around $ 1,000. However, individuals can obtain from membership in the Meteoritical Society at a much cheaper price the journal. The current editor of MAPS is the AJ Timothy Jull Kosmochemiker by the Department of Geosciences of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.