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.
The REBOUND meeting is about to happen: hannorein.github.io/rebound24/ “will be a fully remote two-day meeting on the N-body integrator REBOUND, a software package that can integrate the motion of particles under the influence of gravity”. The entire field of dynamical… Read More »REBOUND (dynam/mechanics code) meet 2024
…and speaking of Gaia: the EAS (European Astronomical Society) 2024 conference is going on right now. It’s not all that relevant to this blog, since there’s a separate EPSC (Euro Planetary Science Conference), and they take care not to overlap… Read More »2024 EAS meeting (Gaia data)
Don’t tune out this weekend. Asteroid Day- the International day of awareness, with events and speakers and such, is this Sunday, June 30 (plus Friday, Saturday, etc.): asteroidday.org/event/asteroid-day-2024/ Commemorating the Tunguska impact of 1908, Asteroid Day is now a UN-recognized… Read More »2 days(?) to Asteroid Day
Yet more picks from the 2024 SPIE telescopes conference (because the full program is just too extremely large): 13092-4 Cubesats for Rapid Infrared and Optical Surveys mission13103-1 Teledyne Digital Imaging’s Recent Contributions to Astronomy and Planetary Science13103-3 SIRIS : a new… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view too…