Summertime, time for the Meteoritical Society’s annual meeting. This time, it’s in Brussels, BE. PART I Posting in parts is required, it’s a big meeting. Very big. (metsoc2024.brussels/programm/) This part will be Bennu-fest, since the timing works out. Base it… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – I. Bennu
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
Coming: the 45th Committee on Space Research assembly (www.cospar-assembly.org/assembly.php), in Busan, Korea. I don’t follow this one much because “space research” is so general, it covers pretty much anything one feels like submitting. Not a favorable signal-to-noise, not an efficient use… Read More »2024 COSPAR meeting, Busan
I let this one slip by, apologies. The TNO 2024 meeting happened this June 24-28, in Taipei, Taiwan. There’s a definite but vague link between literal asteroids and Transneptunian objects. That, and I didn’t go to Taiwan. Not even close.… Read More »TNO2024 meeting
The Insight meeting (“Mars Interior and Geophysics after Insight”) was this week (Jul 16-18). Yes, on the Mars Insight lander, which I will discuss on this blog for good reasons. The Mars Insight (Interior, seismic investigation, geophysics, and heat transfer)… Read More »2024 Mars Insight meeting
The 2024 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) meeting on Geoscience and Remote Sensing was held last week. Not to dwell too much (mostly terrestrial), my take: Sun, 7 Jul: Tutorial, HD-9: Mapping minerals with space-based imaging spectroscopy What… Read More »IEEE Remote Sensing Meeting
Summer means a Summer meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG, www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/). Now, my recap of Day 2. (see Day 1) – An update of DESTINY+, JAXA’s mission to rock comet (3200) Phaethon. Yes, a rock comet. Ground observations… Read More »SBAG, Summer 2024 day 2
It’s time for another SBAG meeting (NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group, www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/). This one was a bit light; we’re in a moment of history where, by chance, missions are either pending launch (under construction), or launched (in cruise, and nothing… Read More »SBAG, Summer 2024 day 1
Just a reminder: This week is SBAG mid-2024, the biannual NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting. It’s this Thursday and Friday, virtual: www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/sbagjuly2024/ Want a teaser? www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/sbagjuly2024/technical_program/ This is not to be missed, certainly not by me.