I know, I know, another meeting. But… it’s Goldschmidt time again! conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi The 2024 Goldschmidt conference (in Chicago) is named for Victor Goldschmidt- not just the eminent professor of geochemistry, but one of the very founders of that field. In… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 1)
From this year’s big annual conference of the Meteoritical Society, 2024 (metsoc2024.brussels): Fri Aug 2, 2024 1:30 PM Session: Extraterrestrial Material 2: Curation, Classification, and Historical Importance … 6339 Upgraded Nuclear Resonance Beamline ID14 at ESRF, the Mössbauer Spectroscopy with… Read More »On The Rocks: Meteorite ….wha?
Okay, so SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation is big. And IAU GA is big. The Meteoritical Society‘s 2024 MetSoc meeting is still no lightweight. 6216 AN OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGIN OF BENNU AS REVEALED BY ITS BULK CHEMICAL AND MAJOR… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – III. Latter Half
New meeting: 2024 will be the fourth year of this Indian meteoritics/chem conference, “”Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites: Messengers from Space”: metmess2024.ipsa-asso.in It will be Nov. 20-22, Ahmedabad (Physical Research Laboratory (PRL)). Registration and submission open until Sep. 15- some time,… Read More »Metmess2024 open
…and the first days of the MetSoc annual conference (metsoc2024.brussels), minus Bennu: metsoc2024.brussels/programm/ Mars and Mars Sample Return – Monday, July 29, 8:30 AM Branagan-Harris E. Bowles N. E. King A. J. et al. Investigating the Origin of Mars’ Moon… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – II. First Half
Summertime, time for the Meteoritical Society’s annual meeting. This time, it’s in Brussels, BE. PART I Posting in parts is required, it’s a big meeting. Very big. (metsoc2024.brussels/programm/) This part will be Bennu-fest, since the timing works out. Base it… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – I. Bennu
I missed this one, but it wasn’t all that substantive. NASA held its NESF (NASA Exploration Science Forum) in St. Louis, last week (Jul 23-25). In the NASA context, ‘exploration’ intimates human exploration. It doesn’t intimate e. g., sample return,… Read More »NESF meeting 2024
Last-minute additions had me posting Astronomy and Astrophysics for June (vol. 686) just now. What’s that about Europeans liking comets (including their meteors)? Kipfer, K. A. Ligterink, N. F. W. Rubin, M. et al. Sublimation of volatiles from H2O:CO2 bulk… Read More »Note, Paper: Old-Worl’ Volatiles Follies
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
Published in the Meteoritics & Planetary Science issue for June (vol. 59 #6): Jonkers, G. van Maldeghem, F. van Ginneken, M. et al. Oxygen isotope compositions of fr… p. 1236 maps.14145 MacLennan, E. M. Emery, J. P. McClure, L. M.… Read More »Note, Paper: Met bits