The Editorials (Click on the reference for the editorial.)
For eleven years as Editor of Meteoritics (later Meteoritics and Planetary Science) I used the editorials to promote the journal, try to improve its usefulness to the readers, and – occasionally – try to use the insights the position was providing, especially with the benefit of a team of associate editors who I interacted with frequently, to try to improve our work and move the subject forward. In a few cases, some of these became highly quoted in the technical literature – that was never the intention. My campaigns were for high standards and making meteorite studies more relevant to the Nation’s exploration of space. We faced the challenges most societies face, too much looking inwards and too often mistaking cataloging with Science, and I was only partially successful in combating these. The journal changed its name in 1996. In that year also, a supplement was also created which would publish meeting abstracts and small articles not appropriate for a regular issue.
1992
Tribute to John Wasson^(1)	Meteoritics 27(1), 2.
Editorial	Meteoritics 27 (1), 3.
Editorial	Meteoritics 27 (2), 123.
Editorial	Meteoritics 27 (3), 195.
Editorial	Meteoritics 27 (4), 323.
Aberrations and angels	Meteoritics 27 (5), 487.
1993
The planetary science in meteoritics	Meteoritics 28 (1), 3.
O time and change!	Meteoritics 28 (2), 159.
"I doubt if there has ever been another story quite like it"	Meteoritics 28 (3), 259.
Astrophysics, asteroids, aubrites, unusual meteorites and a new associate editor	Meteoritics 28 (4), 487.
The case of the not so lost sodium	Meteoritics 28 (5), 607.
1994
Meteoritics - Growth and opportunity	Meteoritics 29 (1), 3.
Primitive achondrites, irons-with silicates and shocked quartz	Meteoritics 29 (2), 151.
Shedding light	Meteoritics 29 (3), 297.
From the editors	Meteoritics 29 (4), 431.
From the editors	Meteoritics 29 (5), 567.
Some thoughts to end another year	Meteoritics 29 (6), 753.
1995
The case for a great many planetary science journals with broad diffuse subject boundaries	Meteoritics 30 (5), 477.
Meteoritics	Meteoritics 30 (6), 619.
Appreciations for 1995	Meteoritics 30 (6), 619.
1996
The responsibilities of publication	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31 (1), 3.
Changes on the editorial front	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31 (2), 165.
More changes on the editorial front	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31 (4), 427.
Responsibilities of a journal owned by a learned society	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31 (Supp), A3.
Is Kaidun really the Rosetta stone	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31 (5), 543.
What price meteorite collections?	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 31 (6), 695.
1997
"The evolution of igneous asteroids: focus on Vesta and the HED meteorites" Houston, Texas, 1996 October 16-18	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (1), 3.
Editorial ethics	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (2), 153.
Series of papers and editorials in Meteoritics & Planetary Science	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (3), 331.
What price meteorite collections? Some responses	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (3), 331.
The sixtieth meeting	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (Supp), A3.
Conference on early Mars, Houston, Texas, 1997 April 24-27^(2)	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (4), 445.
1997 appreciations	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 32 (6), 741.
1998
1997 appreciations	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33 (1), 4.
The Barringer series^(3)	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33 (2), 171.
New associate editors	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33 (3), 383.
The legacy of Allan Hills A84001^(4)	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33 (4), 545.
Paul Barringer: The tribute continues	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33 (4), 546.
Nature's bounty	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33 (Supp), A3.
1999
1998 appreciations	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34 (1), 3.
Fiery origins and museum grit and gravel	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34 (3), 312.
The meteorites of Mars: Sample return this century	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34 (3), 313.
A fourth continent	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34 (Supp), A5.
Meteoritics and Planetary Science goes electronic^(5)	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 34 (5), 687.
2000
Meteoritics and Planetary Science into the next millenium	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (1), 3.
1999 appreciations	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (1), 7.
The tight lipped chondrites	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (3), 443.
The exploration of Mars, martian meteorites, and the search for life	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (5), 891.
Returning to our roots	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (Supp), A5.
Meteoritics and Planetary Science for 2001	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35 (6), 1125.
2001
Renaissance	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36 (1), 3.
2000 appreciations	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36 (1), 6.
Mature societies: Communication, journals and oral histories	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36 (Supp), A5.
Meteorites with your breakfast cereal	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36 (10), 1291.
2002
The Meteoritical Society meeting abstracts	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37 (1), 3.
2001 appreciations	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37 (1), 4.
Learned societies, leadership, journals and the progress of planetary science	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37 (12), 1641.
Logos and special publications for the Society	Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37 (Supp), B3.
^(1)with E. Anders ^(2)with W. K. Hartmann ^(3)with R. A. F. Grieve ^(4)with E. R. D. Scott and P. H. Warren ^(5)with B. R. Plummer
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