Schiff in 1999, is named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 October 2000 (). Selected works The literature of geology, American Museum of Natural History, 1953 Meteorites, Wiley, 1962 The lunar rocks, Authors Brian Harold Mason, William G. Melson, Wiley-Interscience, 1970, Handbook of elemental abundances in meteorites, Editor Brian Harold Mason, Gordon and Breach, 1971 Principles of Geochemistry Editor Carleton B. Moore, Wiley, 1982, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: father of modern geochemistry, Geochemical Society, 1992, See also Glossary of meteoritics References External links Photo of and interview with Mason as part of a longer piece about the Moon rocks, in Dutch, in Vrij Nederland, July 1994 1917 births 2009 deaths New Zealand geochemists People from Port Chalmers People educated at Christchurch Boys' High School Stockholm University alumni University of Canterbury alumni University of Canterbury faculty Indiana University faculty Smithsonian Institution people People associated with the American Museum of Natural History Meteorite researchers Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand New Zealand emigrants to the United States Deaths from kidney failure Presidents of the Geochemical Society