10 Facts About Harry McSween

Harry McSween has published papers and popular books about meteorites and planetary exploration, and textbooks on geochemistry and cosmochemistry.

Harry McSween then joined the Air Force where he was a pilot flying C-141 aircraft around the world.

Harry McSween became involved with the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 as a member of the science team, then on the team for Mars Global Surveyor.

Since then Harry McSween has been a co-investigator on the Mars Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rovers and Dawn asteroid orbiter missions.

Harry McSween has been the elected President of the Meteoritical Society, Chair of the Planetary Division of the Geological Society of America, and Councilor and President of the Geological Society of America.

Harry McSween has served on numerous advisory committees for NASA and the National Research Council.

In 2021, Harry McSween was elected into the membership of the National Academy of Sciences.

Harry McSween has received the Leonard Medal from the Meteoritical Society, the Leconte Medal from the South Carolina Science Council, the J Lawrence Smith Medal from the US National Academy of Sciences, and the Whipple Award of the Planetary Science Division of the American Geophysical Union.

Harry McSween has an asteroid named for him: 5223 Harry McSween.

Harry McSween is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, of which the most cited are:.