Next week: a conference hosted by NOIRLab (National Optical/InfraRed Lab) on our star system… and others:
THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN CONTEXT
noirlab.edu/science/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025
We are happy to announce the 2025 NOIRLab Science Conference: The Solar System in Context, which will take place on 29 September – 2 October in Tucson, Arizona. The conference will be focused on the interdisciplinarity of the formation and evolution of the Solar System, exoplanetary systems, and their stars.
Main topics include: disks; stellar evolution; planet-star connections; (exo)planets; planetary demographics; habitability; planet formation, migration, & evolution; rocky small bodies & (exo) moons; active asteroids & (exo) comets; interstellar objects; instrumentation & software tools, and more.
contact: solarsystemcontext2025@noirlab.edu
noirlab.edu/science/index.php/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025/invited-speakers
Keynote Speakers
Henry Hsieh- Active Asteroids: Recent Results and Future Prospects
Cole Gregg- Investigating the dynamical pathways of interstellar transport
Kat Volk- Present and past dynamics of small bodies in the outer solar system
noirlab.edu/science/index.php/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025/schedule
Sorcha Mac Manamon- ARKS: Spectrospatial Distribution of CO in nearby Exocometary Belts
Stephen Li- Angular Momentum Drain: Despinning Embedded Planetesimals
S. Alan Stern- The Heliocentric Dwarf Planet Population and Heterogeneity in Our Solar System, With Speculations Regarding Dwarf Planets in Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
Mario Juric- Initial Rubin Solar System results: Performance, and first discoveries, and expectations for early operations
Amy Tuson- tess-asteroids: a Python package for asteroid photometry with TESS
Samantha Lawler- Discoveries in the Distant Solar System from CLASSY and LiDO
Emerson Whittaker- Modeling the Shape of 1999 KW4’s Secondary with Libration Included
Bryce Bolin- Testing the lunar and asteroid origin hypotheses of Earth co-orbitals
Helio Honorio Dutra- Physical Characteristics of Jupiter’s Trojans asteroids from Stellar Occultations and Dimensionless 3D Model
Atsuhiro Yaginuma- The Discovery and Initial Characterization of the Third Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS and the Feasibility of A Spacecraft Flyby/Rendezvous
Colin Orion Chandler- Comets in Rubin: Citizen Science and Interesting Objects
Dennis Bodewits- Solving the 60-Year-Old Mystery of the Ionic Emissions from the Coma of 29P
Posters
Eric Van Clepper- Volatile element funneling onto cold giant planets via pebble fragmentation and ice sublimation
Riley Williams- Visible Spectroscopy of Small Eulalia Family Asteroids
Kaustub P Anand- Ejected surface regolith as a potential source material for Centaur rings
Bryce Bolin- The volatile content of giant Oort cloud comet C/2014 UN271 during its return to the planetary region
Kat Volk- The Small Bodies Dynamics Tool
Mohamad Ali-Dib- Protoplanetary cores drove chondrule formation