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AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, One

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It’s January, time for the big AAS (American Astronomical Society) meeting. This year, it’s in mild and sunny Phoenix, AZ, January 4-8.

https://aas.org/meetings/aas247

Of course, the big meeting is themed around… nothing, it’s a general meeting. There’s a separate DPS meeting. My selection of Solar System, small-body relevant agenda items then, culled from everything else:

https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx

Sunday, January 4

Data Access and Analysis with the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (workshop)

Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Working in the Roman Research Nexus (workshop)

Monday, January 5

101 – Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture: Daniella DellaGiustina, From Launch to Legacy: How OSIRIS-REx Changed Our Understanding of Asteroids 101.02

105 – Technosignature Searches: Pipelines, Lasers, and Radio from Stars to Interstellar Objects

A Search for Radio Technosignatures from Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas with the Allen Telescope Array 105.05 Valeria Garcia Lopez

109 – PRIMA Far-Infrared Observatory

110 – Accessible Observatories: Small-Telescope Instrumentation for Education and Community Science

MIRAGE: Characterization and First Light of an InGaAs Infrared Camera for Small Telescopes 110.02 Salma Ibrahim
An Imaging Polarimeter for a small telescope: SPUDS (Stellar Polarimeter for UnDergraduate Studies) 110.07 Ari Chai

136 – Rubin-Era Time-Domain Synergies: Discovery, Calibration, and Follow-up

The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Infrastructure updates, ZTF science, and LSST readiness 136.01 David Trilling
ISS Surveyor: Wide-Field Night Sky Monitoring 136.04 Nora Bailey

137 – Asteroids and Cislunar Hazards: Rubin Results and New Capabilities

Near-Earth and Circumlunar Hazards of Impacts on the Moon 137.01 Martin Connors
The LUSTER Mission Concept for Simultaneous NUV–Visible Monitoring of Comets and Asteroids from the Moon 137.02 Ariel Graykowski
The Active Optics System on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory 137.03D Guillem Megias Homar
SkyMapper: A Global, Decentralized Observing Network for Time-domain, Exoplanet, and Planetary Science 137.04 Thomas Esposito
Non-existent asteroids and how to avoid them 137.05 Aren Heinze

NASA Update

SPHEREx Early Science Results and Community Data Access

148 – The Moon and Beyond, Now: Missions and Partnerships Shaping the Next Five Years

ngRadar: Meter-Scale Radar Imaging of the Lunar Surface and Cislunar Spacecraft from the Ground 148.01 William Armentrout

150 – Beyond the Mid-Decadal: Community Inputs for Space Mission Concepts Toward Astro 2030

Empowering PI-led Science Missions at Lockheed Martin

189 – Catalogs & Surveys and Large Programs

Filter Transformations between Rubin, Roman, and SDSS-derived surveys. 189.04 Meagan Porter

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope


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