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)
So many meetings. In honor of the career of UCLA’s Christopher Russell, there will be a conference at his institution: https://www.space.ucla.edu/russell2024 C. T. Russell is of note here: he was a project scientist- the lead scientist- on the Dawn mission,… Read More »Christopher Russell Meeting
…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
First installment, COSPAR 2024 highlights (per my blogger’s prerogative) (see Finalprogram-2024.pdf) B0.2 Instrumentation for Planetary ExplorationMain Organizer: Dirri, Fabrizio Deputy: Shanmugam, M. B0.2-0001-24 09:00 (solicited) Planetary Missions of India: Instruments Review and Science. Bhardwaj, AnilB0.2-0002-24 09:20 (solicited) Development status of… Read More »2024 COSPAR meeting, Busan- 1
I let this one slip by, apologies. The TNO 2024 meeting happened this June 24-28, in Taipei, Taiwan. There’s a definite but vague link between literal asteroids and Transneptunian objects. That, and I didn’t go to Taiwan. Not even close.… Read More »TNO2024 meeting
I don’t post much about Aerospace, a relatively new journal. It’s clear that space is second, aero (i. e., Bernoulli’s Law, not Tsiolkovskiy’s) is first. Still, there’s some space content: Aerospace vol. 11 #6, JunFarina, D. Machrafi, H. Queeckers, P.… Read More »Note, Paper: Space, …aero
I gave an update on the Vera Rubin Observatory. Undeniably, VRO is (will be…) a game changer. Also noteworthy but less newsworthy: the SPHEREx spacecraft is built: spherex.caltech.edu SPHEREx, for Spectro-PHotometric ices and Epoch of Reionization Explorer, is a NASA… Read More »First Light (Flight) in Sight…