Last week was the American Astronomical Society‘s DDA sub-meeting. The DDA (Division on Dynamical Astronomy) covered “particles” (discrete objects, from dust all the way up to individual stars) as they behave under physical laws (mostly gravity, but also impacts, etc.)… Read More »56th AAS-DDA Meeting
It’s time for the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025, from 25-30 May 2025. (Sorry, we here not in Japan had a holiday.) Like the AGU and EGU, the conference deals with Earth sciences, extending all the way up to other… Read More »2025 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting
Commissioning of systems on the Vera Rubin Observatory continues. Tuning of the active optics systems (NOT adaptive optics) continues. This past week, both Alpha Centauri and Earth’s natural satellite became visible. These bright objects served as crude calibrators, allowing tests… Read More »Vera Rubin Update (Mid-May 2025)
…see Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 It’s now Day 5 of a weeklong conference: wrapping up loose ends. Here, the less technical but no less important soft sciences. And posters; lots and lots of posters. Panel Session… Read More »2025 Planetary Defense Conference, Day 5
…see Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 And now on Day 4 of the PDC, we get to the dramatic, unlikely (and hopefully never likely in our era) part of planetary defense: mitigation. That’s action taken when the impactor has… Read More »2025 Planetary Defense Conference, Day 4
The IAA’s Planetary Defense Conference for 2025 (every odd year) is now going on in Stellenbosch (basically Cape Town), South Africa. No, I am not attending, and …arrg, the program still says “preliminary.” Well, for what it’s worth, here’s the… Read More »2025 Planetary Defense Conference, Day 1
The 2025 meeting of the European Geosciences Union has occurred. And yes, there was relevant content in a geophysics conference. Small bodies are subject to physical laws too: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/meetingprogramme Monday, 28 AprilTue, 29 AprWed, 30 AprThu, 01 MayFri, 02 May… Read More »EGU General Assembly 2025
Still time to sign up for the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, this 23 – 27 June 2025 at University College Cork Cork, Ireland. Early bird registration ends Monday, 28 April 2025. eas.unige.ch/EAS meeting/program.jsp: Symposium S6 23-24 June 2025 The future… Read More »2025 EAS Meeting, Cork
Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html : May 20-22, 2025Small Sample Handling Workshophttps://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/smallsamplemay2025/West Lafayette, IN There’s plenty of room in the micro- and nano-world. Like Moore’s Law, science and science equipment has advanced to finer and finer resolutions. The amount of wisdom we… Read More »Small Sample Handling Workshop
…and speaking of pieces. The 11th Dust Workshop is going on now (18-20 Mar 2025, Venice, IT). The “11th” refers to 2015, due to the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. While it’s true that Rosetta advanced comet studies far beyond… Read More »Dust Workshop 2025