Coming in a few short weeks: a Chinese Space Science conference. The 2025 International Conference of Deep Space Sciences will have asteroidal relevance: [ICDSS2025] SPECIAL SESSION: APOPHIS 2029Abstract deadline: March 3, 2025 The 2025 International Conference of Deep Space Sciences… Read More »‘25 Intnl. Conf. of Deep Space Sciences
The annual 2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference for 2025 is going on right now. Montana, all week. It’s one of the big ones on the calendar. The program, if you can bear it: https://www.aeroconf.org/program/schedule Some excerpts of note, in my humble… Read More »2025 IEEE Aero Conference
Going on now: the virtual meeting, Itokawa And The Dawn of Asteroidal Sample Return. If you hadn’t been watching the news at the time, it’s easy to- today- forget that the JAXA Hayabusa mission laid the groundwork (in one form… Read More »Itokawa Sample Workshop
ATTENTION grad students and postdocs. If you want to put your name in for the 2025 Rusty Schweickart Prize (in planetary defense), you have ONE HOUR to act. You must sign up by 12 p.m. Pacific Time, Tue Jan 21,… Read More »Schweickart Prize Applications
Just announced last week- this year will have two international meetings on planetary defense against impactors. The Japanese space agency (JAXA) is coordinating a meeting, Feb. 27-28. This is in conjunction with the Japan Spaceguard organization, and overlapping (the first… Read More »2025 Planetary Defense Meeting- OTHER Meeting
… see also SBAG Day 1 and Day 2 … And now let’s conclude this writeup of the early-‘25 SBAG (Small Bodies Assessment Group) meeting, the 32nd: Thursday, January 9, 2025 Publishing Updates 10:00 AM Maria Womack Centaurs Book10:10… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 3
The big annual meeting of the AAS is going on as we speak. Because this is the general meeting, it covers too much, compared to the AAS-DPS (Division for Planetary Science) meeting every Autumn. Still, there is some planetary stuff… Read More »245th AAS Meeting
Wow, I underestimated the Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences, just this week. The program is here: https://ifmacao.must.edu.mo/static/resource/IFMACAO_conference_program.pdf At minimum, Alberto Cellino was a keynote speaker. There’s “Origin of the Solar Systemas Seen by A Geochemist” and “Using… Read More »Macau Planetary Science Forum 2025
… see also Part 1 of the Meeting … Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 10:00 AM Mission Updates: Part 110:00 AM Patrick Michel, Hera – ESA10:10 AM Michael Kueppers, Comet Interceptor — ESA10:20 AM Javier Licandro, NEOMIR — ESA10:30 AM Kelsi Singer,… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 2
It’s the New Year, time for another SBAG (Small Bodies Assessment Group) Meeting. Day 1 was largely programmatics: Day 1 Agenda Icebreaker for Early-Career Attendees10:00 AM Lori Feaga Introduction and Logistics 10:05 AM Adrienne Dove UCF Welcome Agency Updates 10:15… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 1