Victor Goldschmidt, the geochemist, was serious. Goldschmidt, the geochemistry conference, is 70+ years more serious: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi Ryugu and Bennu, as unaltered, early-Solar-System specimens in hand, tell us of our own history: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Day/2024-08-21 The Origin and Deep Cycles of Life-essential Volatile… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 2)
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)
Again, how often does Science magazine have an article that’s not biochem, molecular bio, or field bio? Well, in vol. 385 # 6710, for 15 Aug, here’s one: Fischer-Gödde, M. Tusch, J. Goderis, S. et al. Ruthenium isotopes show the… Read More »Note, Paper: Science!
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
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
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
No news to OREx fans, but here’s a good explainer from Dante Lauretta himself, including early sample results: OSIRIS-REx: Revealing Secrets from the Dawn of our Solar System https://airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/events/osiris-rex-revealing-secrets-dawn-our-solar-system Lauretta just gave the Smithsonian’s Exploring Space lecture this Wednesday, May… Read More »OSIRIS-REx Revealing Secrets…