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
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…
Just last Friday (…happy Friday…): some books from the University of Arizona Press‘ Space Science series are now open access. To an extent, this is great: Asteroids and Asteroids IIThe Galaxy and the Solar SystemMeteorites and the Early Solar SystemResources… Read More »Book Bonus-Gratis
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…