Issue 16-31, August 24, 2016
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- REMINDERS FOR UPCOMING DPS48/EPSC 11 DEADLINES
- NEW HORIZONS KUIPER BELT EXTENDED MISSION SCIENCE PLANNING OPPORTUNITY
- ANNOUNCEMENT OF UPCOMING ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
- JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
- UPCOMING MEETINGS
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REMINDERS FOR UPCOMING DPS 48/EPSC 11 DEADLINES
Pasadena, CA, 16-21 October 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center
https://aas.org/meetings/dps48
* Important dates
– 14 September 2016: Hotel Reservations Deadline
– 16 Septembar 2016: Dependent Care Grant Application Deadline
The DPS is grateful to our Meeting Sponsors:
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
AURA
Nature Astronomy
Southwest Research Institute
Ball Aerospace
Nature Geoscience
Space Science Institute
The University of Arizona Press
Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
VORTICES
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NEW HORIZONS KUIPER BELT EXTENDED MISSION
SCIENCE PLANNING OPPORTUNITY
The centerpiece of the proposed New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended
Mission (NH-KEM) is the very close flyby of the 20-40 km wide KBO
2014 MU69 on 1 January 2019. NH-KEM will also observe ~20 other KBOs
at phase angles and/or at resolutions not otherwise possible,
producing a unique database of KBO phase curves, satellite searches,
and ring searches.
On July 1 NASA approved the NH-KEM, which included plans to reach
out to the planetary community for ideas to optimize the scientific return.
The NH Project is holding two KEM WebEx workshops, one from 1-3 pm EDT
on Sep 13 and one from 1-4 pm EDT on Oct 10, to discuss potential community
involvement in planning the NH-KEM. If you’re interested in participating in
these workshops, please send an email ASAP to the NH Project Scientist,
Hal Weaver ([email protected]). He will then provide you with further
details about these workshops.
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF UPCOMING ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION
OPPORTUNITIES
NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Umbrella for Partnerships (ARM-UP) Broad
Agency Announcement (BAA) will seek proposals in research areas including
partner-provided investigations through systems or payloads to be hosted on the
robotic segment of the ARM; collaboration through the ARM Investigation
Team to support definition of additional mission investigations; studies to define
mission partnership opportunities toward NASA’s planned crewed mission to
the multi-ton asteroid boulder; and opportunities for access and experimentation
at the asteroid boulder after the crewed mission.
The full BAA Solicitation, with two appendices, is expected to be issued in
early September. The ARM-UP BAA will remain open until August 2018,
with additional opportunities announced as appendices with their own applicable
requirements and milestones.
The first two appendices issued under the omnibus solicitation will be released
at the same time as the umbrella BAA. Synopses of the appendices are available
on FedBizOpps at:
NASA plans to host a virtual industry forum Sept. 14, 2016 to provide more information.
Details will be made available on the ARM and on the NSPIRES web pages.
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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
A) COMETS/ROSETTA INFRARED DATA
Observatory of Paris
Meudon, France
Deadline: September 25, 2016
content/cometsrosetta-infrared-data
B) POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN EXOPLANETARY SCIENCES
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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UPCOMING MEETINGS
A) USHERING IN THE NEW AGE OF MICROLENSING FROM SPACE
21st International Microlensing Conference
February 1-3, 2017
Pasadena, CA
½ Day Microlensing Workshop
January 31, 2017
Pasadena, CA
http://nexsci.caltech.edu/conferences/2017/microlensing/
B) USER TRAINING IN JWST DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP
November 9-11, 2016
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
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