Geoff Deacon
Collection Manager, Minerals
Qualifications
PhD
Research
Desert Fireball Network, Minerals, Meteorites, Megafauna, Dinosaurs, Climate Change.
Collections
Simpson Mineral and Meteorite collection
Exhibitions and Public Programs
In the Wild West lecture series
Selected Publications
Smith C. L., Kearsley, A. T., Bermingham, K. R., Deacon, G. L., Kurahashi, E., Franchi I. A. and Bevan A.W.R. 2012; LYNCH 002: A New Lunar Meteorite from the Nullarbor Desert, Western Australia. Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Downes Peter J, Bevan Alex W. R. Deacon G. L. 2011; The Kimberley Diamond Company Ellendale diamond collection at the Western Australian Museum. Australian Gemmologist.
Kear, B.P,. Deacon, G. L. and Siversson, M.; 2011: Remains of a Late Cretaceous pterosaur from the Molecap Greensand of Western Australia; Alcheringa. 34, 000-000. ISSN 0311-5518
Spurny, P., Bland, P. A., Towner, M. C., Bevan, A. W. R., Shrbeny, L., Borovička, J., McClafferty, T. P., Vaughan, D., and Deacon, G.L. 2012; The Bunburra Rockhole meteorite fall in SW Australia: fireball trajectory, luminosity, dynamics, orbit, and impact position from photographic and photoelectric records. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, V47, Issue 2 p163-185
Bland, P. A., Spurny, P., Towner, M. C., Bevan, A. W. R., Singleton A, T., Bottke Jr., W. F., Greenwood, R. C., Chesley, S. R., Shrbeny, L., Borovička, J., Ceplecha, Z., McClafferty, T. P., Vaughan, D., Benedix, G. K., Deacon, G, L., Howard, K.T., Franchi, I. A. and Hough, R. M., 2009 An anomalous basaltic meteorite from the innermost main belt. Science: Vol. 325 no. 5947 pp. 1525-1527
Spurny, P., Bland, P. A., Borovička, J., Shrbeny, L., McClafferty, T. P., Singleton, A., Bevan, A. W. R., Vaughan, D., Towner, M. C. and Deacon, G.L., 2009; The Bunburra Rockhole Meteorite Fall in SW Australia: Determination of the Fireball Trajectory, Luminosity and Impact Position from Photographic Records. 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Planetary Science XL), held March 23-27, 2009 in The Woodlands, Texas, id.1498
Bland, P. A., Spurny, P., Towner, M. C., Bevan, A. W. R., Shrbeny, L., Borovička, J., Ceplecha, Z., McClafferty, T. P., Vaughan, D., Benedix, G. K., Deacon, G. L., 2008 The Desert Fireball Network: First Results of Two Years Systematic Monitoring of Fireballs over the Nullarbor Desert of South Western Australia, Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 held July 14-18, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 1405, paper id. 8246.
Bland, P. A., Spurny, P., Towner, M. C., Bevan, A. W. R., McClafferty, T. P., Deacon, G.L., 2006; First Light for the Desert Fireball Network Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 41, Supplement, Proceedings of 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 6-11, 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland., p.5197
