The IAU General Assembly is the big meeting. THE meeting. This year, it’s in Cape Town, South Africa. Something as big as “Astronomical Union” might deserve better than a blog post, but here’s one post, to start off with. It’s… Read More »IAUGA 2024- Cape Town
The tech media has gotten hold of this, but I’ll add my own context. The International Planetary Probe Workshop was held this week, hosted by Langley Research Center, in nearby Williamsburg, VA. The press makes much of OSIRIS-REx being an… Read More »IPPW ’24- Planetary Probes
The Space Resources meeting for 2024 happened: SRR :: Program Interesting agenda items: Al Blooshi, Heyam – UAE Space Agency, The UAE’s Emirates Mission to Explore the Asteroid Belt (EMA) Crull, Daynan – Karman+, High Frontier: The First Asteroid Excavation… Read More »Space Resources Roundtable 2024
Whew… May had its meetings, and now June (…plus) has more. I guess academics, postdocs, and students like the free time, but before it gets too hot. First, this week: Space Resources Roundtable 2024 – June 1 to 7, Boulder,… Read More »Meeting Month (ish)
Day 3, end-of-meeting wrapup: – NASA Hayabusa2 news. Ryugu preparations quite thorough, the body also a carbonaceous chondrite and thus also an organic source/contaminant issue. Can’t study Ryugu organics when you’re finding lots of lab/staff residues, can you? – India’s… Read More »…ExMAG Spring 2024, concluded…
Day 2: – The OSIRIS-REx information was specific, possibly a little too far into the weeds. Lots of slides and speech about curation, from lab equipment and handling procedures to particle-request applications and allocation committees. Granted, the point of OSIRIS-REx,… Read More »…ExMAG Spring 2024, continued…
…before I continue with ExMAG, a recap of AbSciCon. The AGU‘s Astrobiology conference (“AbSciCon” for short) just took place, this time in Providence, Rhode Island. Dworkin, J. P. McLain, H. L. Parker, E. T. et al. A Search for Extraterrestrial… Read More »AbSciCon 2024 meeting
The NASA ExMAG meeting (Extraterrestrial Materials Assessment Group) for Spring, 2024 is going on now. Day 1 status (mostly preliminaries): 1. General statuses. Updates on Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity air test (RIP- not news). Updates on FY24 budget (since March… Read More »ExMAG Spring 2024 meeting
Asteroids: is there anything they can’t do? The NASA Fundamental Physics Workshop was this week, in San Diego. Among the topics was Graham et al.’s concept for asteroids as a physics instrument: Day 2 (Wed), Session 7, 4:25: Fundamental Physics… Read More »Fund.Phys.Wkshp.2024: Ring the Rock Gong!