The purpose of the Roman Space Telescope- if you could boil it down to one- would be cosmology, not small-body science. Yet a wide field of view- at high sensitivity and small pixels- will inherently catch asteroids/comets, without even trying.… Read More »Roman Space Telescope Call(s)
The Winter 2025 meeting of the AAS (American Astronomical Society), Jan 4-8, Phoenix, AZ, concludes soon: https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Again, my cull of small-body-relevant agenda items. Most of the meeting is general astronomy, not small bodies or Solar System items: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx See… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Three
Again, the American Astronomical Society’s big meeting is about to go on (Jan 4-8), in Phoenix, AZ. https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Highlights from (effective) day 2, Jan 6: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx See also: Day 1 (ish) Tuesday, January 6 203 – High-Altitude Balloon Astronomy: Instruments,… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Two(sday)
It’s January, time for the big AAS (American Astronomical Society) meeting. This year, it’s in mild and sunny Phoenix, AZ, January 4-8. https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Of course, the big meeting is themed around… nothing, it’s a general meeting. There’s a separate DPS… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, One
The LSST@Europe7 meeting will be this Sep 15-19, 2025, Poznań, Poland. What’s the business of Europe in a NSF–DOE telescope, you say? Explicitly, the UK and France will (are?) contribute supercomputer cycles to the analysis effort- the petabytes of analysis… Read More »LSST@Europe7 Meeting (Vera Rubin)
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) will hold its biannual (Summer) meeting in Anchorage, Alaska this week. Even though this “general” meeting includes the sub-meetings of the Laboratory Astrophysics Division and Solar Physics Division, there’s still relevant content here for the… Read More »Summer AAS Meeting 2025 (Anchorage)
And the final day of the conference: – Dr. B. Holler presented on the Roman Space Telescope (ex-WFIRST). It is on track for launch in a few short years. That’s the good news; too bad small-body mission aspects have been… Read More »SBAG, Winter 2024-Day 3