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Christopher Russell Meeting

So many meetings. In honor of the career of UCLA’s Christopher Russell, there will be a conference at his institution:

https://www.space.ucla.edu/russell2024

C. T. Russell is of note here: he was a project scientist- the lead scientist- on the Dawn mission, to Vesta and Ceres. A bit relevant, I must say. Even though Russell’s primary field is magnetospherics/heliospherics, that’s still an open question at Ceres (observed to be losing mass as volatiles, water and perhaps ammonia) and even Vesta (later observed to be slumping- signs of landslides of crater walls, into crater pits, likely caused by loss of volatiles from hydrated carbonaceous-chondrite deposits). At minimum, a macro-body is an obstruction to the solar wind, and still has interactions, magnetic field or not.

Using Dawn’s GRaND Instrument to Detect a Magnetic Field at Vesta

The Solar Wind Interaction with Vesta and Ceres Implications for their Magnetic Moments

Limits on the Strength of the Vestan Magnetic Field Using Dawn’s GRaND Instrument

And this is all in parallel with solar wind hydrogen implanting- with impact energy- into macro-bodies of oxides. Oxide + hydrogen = water. A bit relevant.

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