The Winter 2025 meeting of the AAS (American Astronomical Society), Jan 4-8, Phoenix, AZ, concludes soon: https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Again, my cull of small-body-relevant agenda items. Most of the meeting is general astronomy, not small bodies or Solar System items: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx See… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Three
Again, the American Astronomical Society’s big meeting is about to go on (Jan 4-8), in Phoenix, AZ. https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Highlights from (effective) day 2, Jan 6: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx See also: Day 1 (ish) Tuesday, January 6 203 – High-Altitude Balloon Astronomy: Instruments,… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Two(sday)
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… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, One
Time for the Autumn meeting of the AGU (American Geophysical Union). The big meet is in New Orleans, Dec. 15-19: https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting As you might expect from the name “Geophysical”, it mostly deals with the Earth. It deals with the Earth… Read More »2025-Fall AGU Meeting
The Vera Rubin Observatory is organizing a themed meeting this week: https://sites.google.com/view/lsstlatam2025/home This meeting is to coordinate and promote data users in Latin America, and I don’t mean just Chile. https://sites.google.com/view/lsstlatam2025/program Opening Remarks9:30 – 10:00 Rubin Plenary: Robert Blum (Rubin,… Read More »LSST@LATAM Meeting
It’s time for Hayabusa 2025, or properly, the “12th Symposium of Solar System Materials” (November 11–14) at JAXA’s Sagamihara campus: https://curation.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/ This is the annual meeting of sample return science, first held to discuss the results of Hayabusa’s newly-available sample… Read More »Hayabusa Symposium 2025- Pt. I
The 6th COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Symposium is taking place in Nicosia, Cyprus (no, I didn’t fly there) this Nov 3-7: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/symposia/ COSPAR: a bit of a big deal. Therefore, their meeting is big. Maybe too big; I’ll try… Read More »2025 COSPAR Symposium, Nicosia
Starting tomorrow: the 3rd Texas Area Planetary Science (TAPS) Meeting https://sites.google.com/view/tapsmeeting/home , October 23-24, UTSA, San Antonio Once again, my winnowing of the program, per the patch of this blog: https://sites.google.com/view/tapsmeeting/meeting-program Detailed Conference Schedule Poster Session 1Schmitz et al., From 25… Read More »Texas Area Planetary Science Meeting
Next week: a conference hosted by NOIRLab (National Optical/InfraRed Lab) on our star system… and others: THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN CONTEXT noirlab.edu/science/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025 We are happy to announce the 2025 NOIRLab Science Conference: The Solar System in Context, which will take… Read More »Solar System In Context Meeting
The Japanese space agency (ISAS department) is hosting an open, online meeting on the OPENS mission proposal: www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/researchers/info/004084.htmlSep 17, 2025The First OPENS International Science Workshop (Sep 29-30, 2025/ Full Online) One would think probes to Saturn are beyond all but… Read More »Japanese OPENS Meeting Sep. 29-30