If you attended the Symposium on July 31, 2010 in New York, thank you.

Pictures from the meeting are posted on Flickr, here: PHOTOS. (Credit Isabelle Erb)

Convenors: Harold C. Connolly Jr., Brigitte Zanda, and Roger H. Hewins.
This one day symposium addressed the many issues that remain unsolved in the investigation of chondrules, their origin, and their significance in Solar System formation.

Through a day of invited talks and discussion, we explored recent progress on constraining the formation mechanism(s), environments, and the timing of chondrule formation and potentially their accretion into parent bodies. We discussed the implications of chondrule formation for the larger issue of Solar System formation and identify key outstanding issues in the above areas. Finally, we suggested scientific methods that should eventually enable us to better constrain these issues and discuss the developments that may be necessary in order to reach this goal. The fruition of the symposium will be published in a special edition of Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
The Final Announcement, and Program with abstracts, are online at LPI .