Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:50:30 -0500
Subject: #06-04: 2006 Prize Nominations Sought: Masursky and Sagan;
New Horizons
Greetings, DPS members,
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1) 2006 Prize Nominations Sought: Masursky Prize |
2) 2006 Prize Nominations Sought: Sagan Medal |
3) New Horizons Jupiter Encounter Coordinated Observing Campaign |
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2006 HAROLD MASURSKY AWARD NOMINATIONS SOUGHT
Nominations for the 2006 Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious
Service to Planetary Science are due April 20 2006 at 6 p.m. CDT.
This prize was established by the DPS to recognize and honor
individuals who have rendered outstanding service to planetary
science and exploration through engineering, managerial,
programmatic, or public service activities. For purposes of
this prize, "planetary science" is understood to refer
to the multidisciplinary study of the solar system and its
members, excluding work dealing primarily with the Sun or the Earth.
Candidates for the Masursky Award may be of any age or nationality,
and need not be members of the DPS. While primarily intended to
honor living people, a posthumous nomination may be submitted
within one year of a nominee's death.
Go to http://www.aas.org/~dps/prizes_contact.html, fill out
the nomination form and send it to me along with the
supporting materials listed there. In addition, I
request that all nomination materials be submitted in
electronic format. A complete nomination will be
considered by the Prize subcommittee for three years.
You may wish to contact me to see if there already is
an active pending nomination for your candidate. Because of
the time it takes to accumulate materials needed for
a nomination, I encourage all of you to begin as soon as
possible. The award will be presented at the 2006 DPS
meeting in Pasadena, California.
Past Masursky Award Winners include:
1991 C. Sagan 1992 H. J. Smith
1993 M. S. Matthews 1994 J. A. Burns
1995 W. Brunk 1996 W. Quaide
1997 J. T. Trauger 1998 J. H. Rahe
1999 W. T. Huntress 2000 G. Brown
2001 (no award) 2002 (no award)
2003 R. F. Beebe 2004 A. Basilevsky
2005 J.K. Beatty
William B. McKinnon
DPS Prize Subcommittee Chair
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63130
314-935-5604 (w)
314-935-7361 (f)
314-935-5610 (main office)
mckinnon at wustl.edu
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2006 SAGAN MEDAL NOMINATIONS SOUGHT
Nominations for the 2005 Carl Sagan Medal are due April 20 2006
at 6 p.m. CDT. This award was established by the DPS to recognize
and honor outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist
to the general public. It is to be awarded to scientists whose
efforts have significantly contributed to a public understanding
of, and enthusiasm for, planetary science.
Communicating our science to the public is a critical part of
sustaining our science, which is supported largely through public
financing by state and federal institutions. The public, in
turn, finds solar system exploration immediate and exciting. We
owe a debt to those planetary scientists who take it upon
themselves to clearly articulate what we do and present it with
energy and enthusiasm to general audiences to the benefit of all.
For purposes of this prize, "planetary science" is understood to
refer to the multidisciplinary study of the solar system and its
members, excluding work dealing primarily with the Sun or the Earth.
Candidates for the Sagan Medal may be of any age or nationality.
Only living nominees will be considered for an award.
Go to http://www.aas.org/~dps/prizes_contact.html, fill out
the nomination form and send it to me along with the supporting
materials listed there. In addition, I request that all nomination
materials be submitted in electronic format. A complete nomination
will be considered by the Prize subcommittee for three years.
You may wish to contact me to see if there already is an
active pending nomination for your candidate. Because of the time
it takes to accumulate materials needed for a nomination, I encourage
all of you to begin as soon as possible. The award will be presented
at the 2006 DPS meeting in Pasadena, California.
Past Sagan Medal winners include:
1998 W. K. Hartmann 1999 C. R. Chapman
2000 L. A. Lebofsky 2001 A. Brahic
2002 H. B. Hammel 2003 (no award)
2004 D. Morrison 2005 R. Lopes
William B. McKinnon
DPS Prize Subcommittee Chair
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
Saint Louis, MO 63130
314-935-5604 (w)
314-935-7361 (f)
314-935-5610 (main office)
mckinnon at wustl.edu
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NEW HORIZONS JUPITER ENCOUNTER COORDINATED OBSERVING CAMPAIGN
The New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt mission successfully launched on
19 Jan 2006 and is en route to a Jupiter encounter centered on
28 Feb 2007, just under a year from now. Encounter observations
from the spacecraft will begin in January 2007 and extend
through May. Observations will include studies of the Jovian
magnetosphere, Io Plasma Torus, the Galilean satellites,
some small satellites, Jupiter's ring system, Jovian aurorae,
and Jovian meteorology. Additional information can be
found at http://pluto.jhuapl.edu. A New Horizons Jupiter-DAP program is
planned to be a part of the ROSES-08 funding proposal solicitation.
The New Horizons Science Team is now soliciting parties interested
in making coordinated groundbased and spacecraft observatory
observations of the Jovian system during the New Horizons encounter
period. For more information and to register your planned
observational involvement, interested groundbased observers
should contact John Spencer (spencer at boulder.swri.edu); interested
spacebased observers should contact Hal Weaver (hal.weaver at jhuapl.edu).