Day 2: – The OSIRIS-REx information was specific, possibly a little too far into the weeds. Lots of slides and speech about curation, from lab equipment and handling procedures to particle-request applications and allocation committees. Granted, the point of OSIRIS-REx,… Read More »…ExMAG Spring 2024, continued…
…before I continue with ExMAG, a recap of AbSciCon. The AGU‘s Astrobiology conference (“AbSciCon” for short) just took place, this time in Providence, Rhode Island. Dworkin, J. P. McLain, H. L. Parker, E. T. et al. A Search for Extraterrestrial… Read More »AbSciCon 2024 meeting
The NASA ExMAG meeting (Extraterrestrial Materials Assessment Group) for Spring, 2024 is going on now. Day 1 status (mostly preliminaries): 1. General statuses. Updates on Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity air test (RIP- not news). Updates on FY24 budget (since March… Read More »ExMAG Spring 2024 meeting
Asteroids: is there anything they can’t do? The NASA Fundamental Physics Workshop was this week, in San Diego. Among the topics was Graham et al.’s concept for asteroids as a physics instrument: Day 2 (Wed), Session 7, 4:25: Fundamental Physics… Read More »Fund.Phys.Wkshp.2024: Ring the Rock Gong!