I know, I know, yet another meeting… apparently we’re making up for the pandemic. But the Tartu Microsatellites Workshop (“Microsatellites and Their Use in Planetary and Astrobiology Research”) is imminent (this Saturday to next Friday): sisu.ut.ee/microsatellites2023/ This workshop starts with… Read More »Tartu Microsatellites workshop
I know, I know, another meeting. But 2025 is an odd-numbered year… it’ll be PDC time again! iaaspace.org/event/9th-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-2025/ This time, it will be in Stellenbosch, South Africa, slightly later than usual – May 5-9, 2005. Southern hemisphere, maybe? In case… Read More »Planetary Defense Conf. 2025 now open
Catching up, soooo many meetings. This spring was the Vera Rubin Observatory Targets of Opportunity Workshop. It had been identified and noted years ago that VRO has a survey cadence, to find interesting targets in the sky, catalog them outright,… Read More »Rubin ToO Meeting- Report
…and the first days of the MetSoc annual conference (metsoc2024.brussels), minus Bennu: metsoc2024.brussels/programm/ Mars and Mars Sample Return – Monday, July 29, 8:30 AM Branagan-Harris E. Bowles N. E. King A. J. et al. Investigating the Origin of Mars’ Moon… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – II. First Half
No I didn’t forget. COSPAR (the annual conference, and the org itself) are simply that large. The rest: B1.1 Small Body Science in a New Generation of Surveys, Observatories, Sample Returns, and Planetary DefenseOrganizer: Milam, Stefanie Deputy: Palomba, Ernesto Centaurs,… Read More »2024 COSPAR meeting, Busan- 2
Summertime, time for the Meteoritical Society’s annual meeting. This time, it’s in Brussels, BE. PART I Posting in parts is required, it’s a big meeting. Very big. (metsoc2024.brussels/programm/) This part will be Bennu-fest, since the timing works out. Base it… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – I. Bennu
Wow, good Astronomy and Astrophysics this month (“July,” vol. 687). Carry, B. Peloton, J. Le Montagner, R. et al. Combined spin orientation and phase function of … A38 202449789 Woitke, P. Drążkowska, J. Lammer, H. et al. CAI formation in the early Solar… Read More »ANote, Paper: A&a
First installment, COSPAR 2024 highlights (per my blogger’s prerogative) (see Finalprogram-2024.pdf) B0.2 Instrumentation for Planetary ExplorationMain Organizer: Dirri, Fabrizio Deputy: Shanmugam, M. B0.2-0001-24 09:00 (solicited) Planetary Missions of India: Instruments Review and Science. Bhardwaj, AnilB0.2-0002-24 09:20 (solicited) Development status of… Read More »2024 COSPAR meeting, Busan- 1
Coming: the 45th Committee on Space Research assembly (www.cospar-assembly.org/assembly.php), in Busan, Korea. I don’t follow this one much because “space research” is so general, it covers pretty much anything one feels like submitting. Not a favorable signal-to-noise, not an efficient use… Read More »2024 COSPAR meeting, Busan
I let this one slip by, apologies. The TNO 2024 meeting happened this June 24-28, in Taipei, Taiwan. There’s a definite but vague link between literal asteroids and Transneptunian objects. That, and I didn’t go to Taiwan. Not even close.… Read More »TNO2024 meeting