Nearing the end of this year’s Europlanet meeting. The program for this day is particularly small-body-related: Keynote lecture SB “Highlights of Hayabusa 2 sample return mission” by Patrick MichelKeynote lecture TP by “An estimate of the impact rate on Mars… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024, Part Epsi (SSSB)
Yes, I know it was days ago and I’m falling behind. I said it was a big meeting, with lots of talks. TP9 Thu, 12 SepImpact Processes in the Solar System Chrysa Avdellidou; Co- Robert Luther, Elena Martellato, Isabel Herreros,… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024, Part Delta
After all those Summer meeting, how about… a Fall meeting! It’s time for EPSC again. The Europlanet Science Congress ’24 is underway in Berlin. https://www.epsc2024.eu/ Programme – browse by day & time EPSC is big. Very big. It’s pretty equivalent… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024
I want to bring up a new NASA solicitation. No, I don’t want to bring to your attention a solicitation (announcement of opportunity), I want to show just how far the announcement and NASA policies have strayed from outcome-oriented, actionable… Read More »No More Paper- More Launch
Forgot PSJ for August, and it was good. In the vol. 5, #8 issue of the Planetary Science Journal: Waller, C. D. Espiritu, R. C. Tinsman, C. et al. Science Product Pipelines and Archive Architecture… p. 177 /ad5959Meyer, A. J.… Read More »Note, Paper: Pla paperS
I missed this one, but it wasn’t all that substantive. NASA held its NESF (NASA Exploration Science Forum) in St. Louis, last week (Jul 23-25). In the NASA context, ‘exploration’ intimates human exploration. It doesn’t intimate e. g., sample return,… Read More »NESF meeting 2024
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
Acta Astronautica vol. 220 (Jul 2024) is a good one: Nath, A. Developing algorithms to determine an Asteroid’s physical properties and the succ… p. 62 2024.04.019 Schulc, M. Czakoj, T. Novák, Even et al. Validation of SiO2 neutron cross sections… Read More »Note, Paper: Push it
Don’t tune out this weekend. Asteroid Day- the International day of awareness, with events and speakers and such, is this Sunday, June 30 (plus Friday, Saturday, etc.): asteroidday.org/event/asteroid-day-2024/ Commemorating the Tunguska impact of 1908, Asteroid Day is now a UN-recognized… Read More »2 days(?) to Asteroid Day
The April “issue” (part of vol. 529, billed as three issues) of MNRAS (Royal Astronomical Society’s journal) isn’t complete; issue #3 is still in progress. I’ll go ahead and cite the first two: Vol. 529, #2: Sun, S. Shi, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: most Monthly Notices of