Issue 18-03, January 21, 2018
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- MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR: NEW ICARUS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- VOLUNTEER FOR AAS CONGRESSIONAL VISITS DAY 2018
- SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP SMALL BODIES GOALS DOCUMENT
- UPCOMING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR: NEW ICARUS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
I am happy to inform you that Dr. Rosaly Lopes will be our new
Editor-in-Chief for the journal Icarus effective February 1st. We
welcome Rosaly to her new role. Her broad planetary science expertise
and organizational experience (DPS Chair and managerial experience
at JPL) will serve her well as Editor-in-Chief of Icarus.
With this change in leadership, we also have the opportunity to applaud
and to sincerely thank Phil Nicholson once again for his 20 years of
service as Editor-in-Chief of Icarus. Thank you for your commitment
to and guidance of Icarus over the last two decades, Phil!
Please join me in welcoming Rosaly and thanking Phil on behalf of the
Planetary Science community.
Cathy Olkin
DPS Chair
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VOLUNTEER FOR AAS CONGRESSIONAL VISITS DAY 2018
Every year the AAS brings volunteers to Washington, DC, for Congressional
Visits Day (CVD) to advocate for federal support of their science with their
members of Congress. This year the AAS CVD will be held Monday-Wednesday,
12-14 March 2018. Would you like to advocate for the research efforts, education
programs, and facilities in the planetary sciences that enable STEM engagement
and innovation across disciplines and sectors? Then read on, and sign up today!
The AAS aims to select at least 15 volunteers who balance the program by
division membership, location, career stage, and experience. Find more details
and the CVD 2018 Sign-Up Form at:
https://aas.org/posts/blog/2018/01/volunteer-congressional-visits-day-2018
Sign-ups are open now through 26 January 2018. Selected volunteers will be
notified in mid-February 2018. Note that: You must be an AAS member; You
must be eligible to vote in the United States; Business attire is required; The
AAS will cover the majority of travel expenses for volunteers selected to
participate, as our budget allows; and Submitting the form does not guarantee
you a slot in this year’s CVD. Also look ahead for AAS participation in the
Science-Engineering-Technology (SET) Working Group CVD sometime in
May-June 2018 (exact dates TBD).
Kurt Retherford
DPS FRS Chair
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SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP SMALL BODIES GOALS DOCUMENT
The Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) is beginning the process of
revising our document of the community’s goals for exploration and study
of small bodies in the Solar System. Here is you chance to volunteer to be
a part of the process, and make your voice heard.
The current Goals document is at https://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/goals/
For the current workover, the leaders of the various sections, all of whom
are cc’d, will be
Andy Rivkin, science
Paul Chodas, planetary defense
Dan Adamo, human exploration, and
Amara Graps, resource utilization (this topic was not listed separately in the
previous document)
If you are interested in participating in a section, please contact the lead for
that section.
We hope to have groups of 6-10 people working on each section, primarily
during the next 5-6 months, and primarily via email and telecon, and we hope
to have groups that are diverse in viewpoint, experience, gender, etc.
I hope that you will participate. It is important that documents like this
represent the community as a whole.
Thanks.
Tim Swindle
Chair, SBAG Steering Committee
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UPCOMING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
A) ASIA OCEANIA GEOSCIENCES SOCIETY (AOGS) MEETING
3-8 JUNE 2018
HONOLULU, HAWAII
AOGS 2018 ABSTRACTS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 26 JANUARY 2018
Conference website: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2018/public.asp?page=home.htm
FYI, for those of you who are interested in attending the 2018 Asia Oceania
Geosciences Society meeting in Honolulu but didn’t submit an abstract yet,
the abstract deadline has been extended to January 26. As such, it’s not too
late to get your abstract submitted and join us in June!
We look forward to welcoming you to Honolulu!
On behalf of the conveners of PS10, PS12, PS14, PS19, PS20, and PS21,
Henry Hsieh (PSI)
Ludmilla Kolokolova (UMD)
Jian-Yang Li (PSI)
Norbert Schorghofer (PSI)
Jennifer Scully (JPL)
Bin Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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AOGS Session PS20: Missions and Surveys: Drivers of Future Solar System Science
Targeted space missions and both space-based and ground-based surveys
have already had an enormous impact on planetary astronomy, with future
planned missions and surveys promising to have even greater impacts. This
session will explore these various efforts and detail their accomplishments
to date, current statuses, and expected individual and cumulative impacts in
the future.
Conveners: Henry Hsieh (PSI), Jian-Yang Li (PSI), Makoto Yoshikawa (JAXA)
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AOGS Session PS21: Physical and Dynamical Evolution of the Post-formation Solar System
In this session, we will consider the evolution of the post-formation Solar
system, integrating views and results from various areas of study. Topics
for discussion will include but are not limited to space weathering, dynamical
and thermal evolution of small bodies and major planets, impact and rotational
disruptions, crust formation, impact bombardment, and laboratory and
experimental studies.
Conveners: Henry Hsieh (PSI), Ramon Brasser (ELSI),
Norbert Schorghofer (PSI), Bin Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences),
Xiao-Ping Lu (MUST)
B) COSPAR 2018 42nd Assembly – 60th Anniversary
Pasadena, California, 14-22 July 2018
ABSTRACTS DUE 9 February 2018
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SMALL BODIES, SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION
During these years small body science and exploration is experiencing an
exceptional Golden Era. Recent Space missions such as Rosetta, Dawn and
New Horizons, or surveys (HERSCHEL, WISE, Gaia) have changed our
perspectives about Solar System formation/evolution. In the next months
Hayabusa-2 and OSIRIS-REx will approach their targets for sample returns.
Future missions are planned for Phobos, Didymos, or studied for active
asteroids and Jupiter Trojans. Nevertheless, small body research also requires
multidisciplinary efforts including telescopic observations, meteor analysis,
meteoritic investigations, laboratory experiment and theoretical studies. In
particular, research on surface properties and internal structures of small
bodies as gravitational aggregates is a rapidly growing subject as well as is
the investigation of samples returned by Comet or Asteroid.The intent of
this session is to be the gathering place of recent results and future prospects
of small body exploration from the scientific and the technologic point of view.
The B1.1 Organizing Committee welcomes contributions with a Scientific,
Technical or Instrumental focus encompassing all the topics above.
*Session Organizer*
Ernesto Palomba (INAF/IAPS, Italy)
*Deputy Organizer*
Daniel Hestroffer, IMCCE, CNRS (France)
*Scientific Organizing Committee*
Ernesto Palomba (INAF/IAPS, Italy)
Daniel Hestroffer, (IMCCE, CNRS, France)
Haijme Yano (Jaxa, Japan),
Christopher T. Russell (University of California Los Angeles, USA),
Stephan Ulamec (DLR, Germany)
Andrea longobardo (INAF/IAPS, Italy)
C) AIDA/DART Spring 2018 Investigation Team Meeting
April 9, 2018
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD
The DART Investigation Team will have a one-day meeting of the Investigation
Team on 9 April 2018. This meeting will be used to discuss the status of DART
and the collaborative AIDA project, present work done by the Investigation Team
during DART’s Preliminary Design Phase (“Phase B”), and prepare for a possible
transition to Final Design and Fabrication Phase (“Phase C”) later in 2018. The
meeting will have a single plenary session during which reports from each of the
five Investigation Working Groups (Modeling and Simulation of Impact Outcomes,
Remote Observations, Dynamical and Physical Properties, Science Proximity
Operations, Ejecta Dynamics and Evolution) and the Deflection Independent
Validation and Verification team will be given and discussed. We welcome
community interest and participation in general discussion, and plan to provide
for remote access. Registration is required for onsite participants so that we can
generate a visitor log, but there is no registration fee and no abstracts are solicited.
Please register by 23 March at:
https://tinyurl.com/DartTeamMtg
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