We are excited to inform you that Geochemical Perspectives, an EAG publication launched in 2012, has been indexed in Web of Science starting last fall. Its first impact factor is due to be announced in the coming months.
The next issue, 'Fluids in the Continental Crust', written by Bruce Yardley and Robert Bodnar, is currently in preparation and will be available in April on www.geochemicalperspectives.org and GeoScienceWorld.
At present, we know of ~600,000 asteroids in the asteroid belt, and there are very likely millions more. Orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, they are thought to be the shattered remnants of small bodies formed within the young Sun's solar nebula that never accreted enough material to become planets. These “minor bodies” are therefore keys to understanding how the Solar System formed and evolved. As leftover planetary building blocks, they are of great importance in understanding planetary compositions. They may also provide clues to the origin of life, as similar bodies may have delivered organics and water to the early Earth. For these reasons, several international space agencies have funded sample- return missions to asteroids.
We would like to remind you that EAG members have online access to all back issues at Elements online (user id = email address and password = EAG membership number).