Barringer Medal

The Barringer Medal recognizes outstanding work in the field of impact cratering and/or work that has led to a better understanding of impact phenomena. The Barringer Medal and Award were established to honor the memory of D. Moreau Barringer Sr. and his son D. Moreau Barringer Jr. and are sponsored by the Barringer Crater Company. The medal is awarded by the Meteoritical Society. The senior Barringer was the first to seriously propose an impact origin for the crater that now bears his name.

Award winners The first recipient, Eugene Shoemaker, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 and was the first to offer accepted proof of Barringer Crater’s meteoritic origin.Levy, David H.(2002) Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-11325-4. YearName1984Eugene M. Shoemaker1985Robert S. Dietz1986Donald E. Gault1987Wolf J. von Engelhardt1988Michael R. Dence1989Virgil E. Barnes1990Richard A. F. Grieve1991Victor L. Masaitis1992Edward C. T. Chao1993Dieter Stöffler1994D. W. Roddy1995William A. Cassidy1996F. Hörz1997T. Ahrens1998B. A. Ivanov1999H. Jay Melosh2000Ralph Belknap Baldwin2001Alexander T. Basilevsky2002Bevan M. French2003Graham Ryder2004Peter H. Schultz2005Billy P. Glass2006Robert M. Schmidt2007Christian Koeberl2008Frank T. Kyte2009Wolf Uwe Reimold2010William K. Hartmann2011Bruce F. Bohor2012Jan Smit2013Walter Alvarez2014Alex Deutsch2015Natalia Artemieva2016Keith Holsapple2017Akira Fujiwara2018Thomas Kenkmann2019Mark Cintala2020Joanna Morgan2021Gordon Osinski2022Gareth Collins and Kai Wünnemann2023Birger Schmitz2024John Spray2025Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay2026Philippe Claeys

See also

List of astronomy awards Glossary of meteoritics

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