It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
The academic year has started, yet there are conferences. This coming Monday (a holiday in the US/Canada) will be the first of many, highly applicable to this site: IMPACTS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE CONFERENCE The meeting… Read More »Impacts and Life Conference, 1 Sep
Hey peers: help your fellow planetary scientists and ensure a vibrant planetary science field. Courtesy of Planetary Newsletter: Join our Solar System Science Program as virtual panelists and external reviewers https://tinyurl.com/2s3bkhcr Quick ApplicationRequired Fields: Answer all items marked with an asterisk*Share… Read More »NASA Science Peers Call
Additional August developments for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Reprising a prior post, the 2025 Rubin Community Workshop has not only happened, but now has presentations posted online: project.lsst.org/excitement-and-collaboration-2025-rubin-community-workshop There are now more details on the status update, keynote presentation,… Read More »Vera Rubin Update (August-B)
The annual Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting came and went, July 27-Aug 1, in Singapore. Forgot to post this, sorry: AOGS2025 SESSION PS19: HYDRATION IN AIRLESS BODIES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The recent decades have brought a revolution in our… Read More »2025 AOGS Meeting
Now for the annual Smallsat Conference (smallsat.org), hosted as always by Utah State University, August 11-13. See the overview: https://smallsat.org/conference/schedule/ https://smallsat.org/conference/keynote/https://smallsat.org/conference/flash-talks/https://smallsat.org/conference/posters/ In case you don’t see the connection: Hera is currently flying with the Milani and Juventas 6U CubeSats, to… Read More »Smallsat meeting, 2025
This week will see the 16th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, in Boulder, CO (SwRI campus). It will actually overlap the Instrumentation for Planetary Missions Workshop, also in Boulder. As a subfield of geophysics, cratering can be purely theoretical and body-independent.… Read More »Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting 2025
This week saw the annual UK Space Conference. It’s true that most of this meeting concerned commercial or workforce topics, and therefore Earth orbit flights and related subjects. However: https://www.spaceconference.co.uk/2025/programme Thursday 17 July2:50 PM – 3:30 PM24BK021: Asteroids: The UK… Read More »UK Space Conference 2025
And now, the final day of the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ My cull of relevant agenda items: Friday, July 18, 2025 Aqueous Alteration of Chondrites Babrián B. et al.An Experimental View of Progressive Aqueous Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrites [#5048] Lee M.… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 5
This Wednesday will be the midpoint of the weeklong MetSoc meeting, going on right now (see Day 1, Day 2). Today is quite light, ergonomically, but heavy pedagogically. Conel Alexander has spent his career in cosmochemistry, and not just “in… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 3