Issue 17-24, June 22, 2017
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- JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE NEWS
- ALMA LONG BASELINE WORKSHOP (2ND ANNOUNCEMENT)
- ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPICE TRAINING CLASS
- A CENTURY OF ASTEROID FAMILIES (A FOCUS MEETING AT THE 2018 IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY)
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JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE NEWS
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming JWST events for the
Planetary Science Community:
JWST proposal workshops
Sept 17-22: EPSC (Riga, Latvia) – proposed
JWST proposal workshop and JWST Townhall
Oct 15-20: DPS (Provo, UT) – proposed
Solar System Workshop (Baltimore, MD)
Nov 13-15: JWST
JWST Solar System Workshop (ESTEC: Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Dec 13-15:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/jwst-ssws-2017/home
IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR JWST Cycle 1 Call for Proposals
– General Observer (GO) Cycle 1 Call Released: November 30, 2017
– GTO/ERS targets and APT files finalized: November 15, 2017
– GO Proposal Deadline: March 2, 2018
– JWST launch: October 2018
– Full Science Operations: April 2019
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ALMA LONG BASELINE WORKSHOP (2ND ANNOUNCEMENT)
Mielparque Kyoto, October 3-5, 2017
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) is now the most
powerful mm/submm interferometer in the world, and it is producing a total of
> 500 refereed papers in nearly all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. In
particular, the ~0.02” submm images obtained during the long baseline campaign
in 2014 (ALMA Partnership et al. 2015) have led to numerous publication and
followup observational and theoretical studies, signifying the extreme importance
of the high resolution imaging capabilities of ALMA.
The scope of this three day workshop is to (1) review the high-resolution ALMA
science results obtained to date, (2) identify detailed science cases for the future
baseline expansion of ALMA (e.g. aiming at an angular resolution of ~ 0.001”-0.003″),
(3) discuss the scientific and technical requirements such as, for example, angular
resolution, number and size of the antennas, sensitivity and operational frequency,
and (4) review the technical feasibility studies for longer baseline imaging. We
envision the output of this workshop to be used as a guideline to pave the pathway
for the future expansion of ALMA.
We will have slots available for contributed talks. We will also have space for
poster presentations.
Registration is now available from the following website.
http://alma-intweb.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~diono/meetings/longBL2017/
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The workshop can accommodate up to ~100 participants, and registration will be
processed on first-come-first-served basis. Registration will be closed when we
reach the maximum number of participants. Please register early.
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF A SPICE TRAINING CLASS
NASA’s Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) announces a
“SPICE” training class to be held November 7 – 9, 2017, in the Pasadena California
area. SPICE is a system used by scientists worldwide to compute observation
geometry associated with instruments aboard robotic spacecraft. The class is
free and open to all persons, including foreign and commercial. Further
information and a registration form are available at https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/WS2017_prelim_announcement
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A CENTURY OF ASTEROID FAMILIES (A FOCUS MEETING AT THE 2018 IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY)
Dates: 28-30 August 2018
Location: Vienna, Austria
Join us at the 2018 IAU General Assembly for a Focus Meeting celebrating
the centennial of the discovery of asteroid families. Main topics areas include:
-A Look Back: The History of Asteroid Families (before Yarkovsky)
-Families in the Era of the Yarkovsky Effect
-Families as a Probe of Catastrophic Collisions
-Families beyond the Main Belt
-New Results in Asteroid Family Science
-A Look Forward: Predictions for the Future
For more information, visit the meeting webpage:
http://asteroidfamilies.net/IAU2018/
On behalf of the SOC:
Joe Masiero (Chair), Miroslav Broz, Valerio Carruba, Alberto Cellino,
Julia de Leon, Patrick Michel, David Nesvorny, Noemi Pinilla-Alonso,
Federica Spoto, David Vokrouhlicky, Fumi Yoshida
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