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
Briefly: there’s a meeting on the Extremely Large Telescope going on right now, the Vienna ELT Science + Simulations Workshop, at the University of Vienna Observatory. https://astarvienna.github.io/websites/ELTWorkshopSept2025.html This is the second Vienna meeting, #2: “Spatial resolution”. (If you aren’t already… Read More »2nd Vienna ELT Meeting
September’s Meteoritics & Planetary Science (vol. 60 #9) is now up, plus a supplemental issue: Lee, M. R. Salge, T. Maclaren, I. Magnesium phosphate in the Cold Bokkeveld (CM2) carbonaceous chondrite P. 2017 maps.70018Vacher, L. G. Phan, V. T. H.… Read More »Note, Paper: Phos-Fact Post
It’s September again, time for the 26th AMOS Conference- Sep 16-19, in Wailea, Maui. “AMOS” referred to Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance, an Air Force telescope asset and tracking program located in- you guessed it- Maui, Hawaii. From that… Read More »26th AMOS Conference, 2025
Yes, we’re in the middle of meeting season. A meeting happened a week and a half ago- in my defense, it was all in Chinese, and that’s not one of my languages. It’s also the third annual Tiandu Forum (“International… Read More »Tiandu (Int’l Deep Space) Meeting 2025
In a few days: the “Cosmic Dust 15” meeting, in Osaka. https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/Welcome.html Yes, dust. You know, the dust that is shed by comets, plus asteroids too (active asteroids, and the ejecta from impacts). The meteors you see in the night… Read More »Cosmic Dust Meeting 2025