… see also Part 1 of the Meeting …
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 10:00 AM
Mission Updates: Part 1
10:00 AM Patrick Michel, Hera – ESA
10:10 AM Michael Kueppers, Comet Interceptor — ESA
10:20 AM Javier Licandro, NEOMIR — ESA
10:30 AM Kelsi Singer, New Horizons
10:40 AM Keith Noll, Lucy
10:50 AM Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Ben Weiss, Carol Polanskey, Psyche
11:00 AM Amy Mainzer, NEO Surveyor
11:10 AM Jose Aponte, OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis — Organic Materials
11:20 AM Michelle Thompson, OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis — Space Weathering
11:30 AM All Open Mic
11:45 AM Break
12:00 PM Anjani Polit, OSIRIS APEX
12:10 PM Monica Lazzarin, RAMSES — ESA
12:20 PM All Open Mic
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM All Open Mic
Discussion: International Coordination of Apophis Missions
Apophis Mission Concepts
2:30 PM Nathan Golovich, Ra’s CATS: Rapid Characterization of Apophis with Two Satellites
2:40 PM Leonard Vance, CATS-I: Precursor Apophis Imaging Using Nanosatellites
2:50 PM Adriana Daca, The Caltech Mission to Apophis
3:00 PM Adrienne Rudolph, Maryland Terps on the Hunt: TERP-RAPTOR’s 2029 CubeSat Flyby of Apophis
3:10 PM Break
Astrophysics Surveys: Small Bodies Use Cases
3:30 PM Benoit Carry, Euclid — ESA
3:40 PM Tony Farnham, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
3:50 PM Yoonsoo Bach, SPHEREx
4:00 PM Pedro Bernardinelli, Vera C. Rubin Observatory — Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
4:10 PM Rick Cosentino, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
4:20 PM Richard Cartwright, Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
4:30 PM All Open Mic
4:45 PM Break
Mission Updates: Part 3
5:00 PM Hoor AlMazmi, MBR Explorer — UAE Space Agency Asteroid Tour Mission
5:10 PM Yuya Mimasu, Hayabusa2# — JAXA
5:20 PM Yuichiro Cho, Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) — JAXA
5:30 PM All Open Mic
Hera- used the Earth system for its calibration, will actually do a Deimos flyby (95 m/pix) when it gets a Mars gravity assist this Spring, there will be a July meeting (U Tokyo); fast program for ESA!
Comet Interceptor – on track, needs an LSST LPC (Long-Period Comet) to target
NEOMIR – funded through Phase B1 study (2025); would have detected Chelyabinsk impactor
New Horizons – alive and healthy, now hibernating. Searching for potential targets. Meetings soon!
Lucy – on track, Donaldjohansen flyby- much unknown about Dj, its flyby will be like Polymele’s
Psyche – on track & thrusting. Checking instruments, taking cal/deep-space data; other bonus includes lasercom demonstration at beyond Mars distance
Bennu – organics less than Murchison but uncontaminated; lots of toluene!
M. Thompson – ~40,000 yr Bennu exposure age from microcraters, particle tracks; Bennu’s water, other volatiles form vesicles, but less than seen at Ryugu
OREx-APEX – functioning, but underfunded; juggling disturbance (thruster) experiment
RAMSES – proceeding (formal ESA Ministers approval late in year); launch, secondary instrument to be provided by international partners?
Several small Apophis missions being studied (time running low)- these are more likely nowadays with rideshare/secondary launch, but still a numbers game. I wish them luck.
Euclid passes checkout, may actually resolve asteroid binarity!
TESS occasionally repoints to ecliptic, for small-body work; software pipelines in work, can do comet lightcurves, and comet trails- the macro particles left in orbit behind a comet
SPHEREx non-pointed survey to begin soon, and it will include serendipitous small bodies
VRO – no issues, target “tracking” demonstrated, schedule progressing as planned
Roman Space Tel Time Allocation in study- significant promise despite pointing (non)allocation
Habitable Worlds Obs: now in definition, high potential- instruments, phase range, tracking TBD
EMA/MBR: instruments, Justitia follow-up observations, and a lander of some kind (TBD…)
Haya2# – healthy (mostly); flyby will be unlike orbiting, project wants to approach Torifune closely (“Super Proximity”) as a planetary defense demonstration, like a (quasi-)DART
MMX overview presented… and an Idefix rover briefing. The first microgravity wheeled traverses