The Issue of Meteoritics And Planetary Science this ‘month’ is a supplemental issue, covering the Meteoritical Society meeting this past Summer. Issue S1 is full of titles, authors, and abstracts, in case my selection didn’t cut it for you. Drive… Read More »…MetSoc 2024 meeting – IV. ‘Save As’
No, I haven’t forgotten. When a conference runs to Friday afternoons, Friday afternoon becomes… Friday afternoon, as you may be well aware. Some meetings don’t even bother putting anything serious then. But the Goldschmidt conference does, at least, in 2024:… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 3)
I know, I know, yet another ANOTHER meeting… the Advanced Maui Optical/infrared Summit is one of the premiere telescopic/photonic events in the annual calendar: amostech.com AMOS is good, not just because you go visit Maui, but because the “RSO” (resident… Read More »2024 AMOS Conference
Victor Goldschmidt, the geochemist, was serious. Goldschmidt, the geochemistry conference, is 70+ years more serious: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi Ryugu and Bennu, as unaltered, early-Solar-System specimens in hand, tell us of our own history: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Day/2024-08-21 The Origin and Deep Cycles of Life-essential Volatile… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 2)
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
I know, I know, another meeting. But… it’s Goldschmidt time again! conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi The 2024 Goldschmidt conference (in Chicago) is named for Victor Goldschmidt- not just the eminent professor of geochemistry, but one of the very founders of that field. In… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 1)
Still catching up on meetings, but speaking of catching: the Rubin Community Workshop 2024 was held (at SLAC, Jul 22-26). No proceedings seem available just yet, but maybe better: some or all sessions were recorded, and posted online: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPINAcUH0dXYRxx6NweLPFFJNZPqtkzC9 Some… Read More »Rubin Community Workshop 2024 (SLAC, Jul 22-26)
So many meetings. In honor of the career of UCLA’s Christopher Russell, there will be a conference at his institution: https://www.space.ucla.edu/russell2024 C. T. Russell is of note here: he was a project scientist- the lead scientist- on the Dawn mission,… Read More »Christopher Russell Meeting
Okay, so SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation is big. And IAU GA is big. The Meteoritical Society‘s 2024 MetSoc meeting is still no lightweight. 6216 AN OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGIN OF BENNU AS REVEALED BY ITS BULK CHEMICAL AND MAJOR… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – III. Latter Half