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PERIODICALS

• Геохімія та рудоутворення
• Мінералогічний журнал
• Записки Українського мінералогічного товариства

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• Conference
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• Solemn meeting of the Academic Council
• Popularization in mass media
• Lecture, seminar

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Department of Cosmoecology and Cosmic Mineralogy

The Department was organized in 1993 and is working in one of the main areas of the Institute activity: regional and genetic mineralogy, physics of minerals, nanomineralogy; namely in the field of cosmic mineralogy.

Principle scientific directions and tasks of the Department

1. Elucidation of the Solar System and its mineral resources origin on the basis of a structural and mineralogical, chemical and isotopic investigation of meteorites:

- study and classification of cosmogenic processes of mineral formation;

- search of a new type of cosmic material and study of its chemical and mineralogical characteristics;

- investigation the main stages of metal-silicate and organic material transformation in the early protoplanetary nebula;

- elucidation of the physical and chemical conditions of origin and evolution of parent bodies of meteorites.

2. Identification and classification of the meteorite samples submitted to the Committee of Meteorites of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and scientific popularization activity among inhabitants.

3. A search for new meteorites that fell on the territory of Ukraine and replenishment of a meteorite collection of the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Informal groups of optical microscopy, electron microscopy and general chemistry are working in the Department.

Photo. Department researches with a sample of the new Ukrainian meteorite Gruzke. Gorovenko T.M., Ph.D. geol. Sciences Shirinbekova S.N., Ph.D. geol.-min. Sciences Tsyon O.V., Ph.D. geol. Sciences A.L. Girich, Dr. geol.-min. Sciences Semenenko V.P., Koromyslichenko T.I. 2009.

Photo. Optical microscopestudy of meteorites. Ph.D. geol. Sciences Kychan N.V.

Photo. Electron microscopic study of meteorites. Ph.D. geol. Sciences Shkurenko K.O.

Photo. Chemical studies of sorption of natural samples. Senior engineer T.I. Koromyslichenko.

Photo. One of the working moments during the meteorite expedition in Transcarpathia in March 2004. In a foreground, Ph.D. geol. Sciences Rozko A.M.