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December 2018 |
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Hayabusa 2018: 6th Symposium of the Solar System Materials,
Tokyo, Japan 
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft has arrived at its target asteroid, Ryugu. The remote-sensing observations are now on-going for new insights into this C-type asteroid.
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Ninth Symposium on Polar Science,
Tokyo, Japan
The NIPR is organizing this annual symposium to present and promote a wide variety of polar scientific research and interdisciplinary studies.
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LPI Seminar: Ocean World and Martian Sub-ice Access and Exploration Technology: How close are we to viable flight vehicles? (Bill Stone, Stone Aerospace, Austin, TX),
Lecture Hall
The recent discovery of a possible (as-yet unverified) subglacial lake beneath the south pole ice cap of Mars has increased interest in reaching such places with robotic technology. During the past decade research has been conducted on ice penetrating “cryobots” and cryobot-deployed autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) in preparation for sub-surface missions to Ocean Worlds. This talk will provide an overview of the current state of ice penetrating and sub-ice exploration technology that is being developed towards flight missions. Of primary importance is a nuclear power source, which can be optimized for cryobot operations. In addition, there are five cryobot operating regimes (starting, brittle ice transit, ductile ice transit, obstacle avoidance/passage, and breakthrough into voids or ocean). Each of these presents unique challenges to and constraints on a vehicle. Currently, four penetrator technologies have been identified that can be used either singly or collectively: passive thermal melt probes, closed-cycle hot water drills (CCHWD), laser penetration, and mechanical drills. All are currently being advanced in the NASA COLDTech program as each has certain tradeoffs. Mechanical drills have been shown to work in cold ice and are able to penetrate non-ice solids, but suffer from wear and binding. Lasers are extremely efficient in cutting through cold and warm ice, including in vacuum conditions, but require large amounts of electrical power. CCHWD systems can also cut through debris-laden ice and steer to avoid obstacles. In this presentation, we discuss pros and cons of each of these penetrator technologies in light of new nuclear power sources. We also discuss constraints on deployable sub-ice swimming rovers necessary to expand exploration radius from an initial breakthrough point into a sub-surface water body as well as the state of AI operating behaviors for such rovers that dramatically enhance autonomous exploration capabilities. Finally, we propose several new test facilities that will both advance these technologies to flight readiness and improve our understanding of Earth’s and extraterrestrial cryospheres.
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2018 AGU Fall Meeting,
Washington, DC
AGU's Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences.
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January 2019 |
| 29-31
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20th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG),
Houston, Texas
The SBAG is NASA's community-based forum designed to provide science input for planning and prioritizing the exploration of small bodies throughout the solar system for the next several decades.
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Mars Extant Life: What's Next? (#lifeonmars2019),
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The conference will focus on understanding and discussing strategies for exploring for extant life on Mars. The program will promote broad community discussion of the numerous extant life hypotheses that have been advanced over the years and that have evolved in response to discoveries by on-going Mars missions.
Of special interest is hypotheses that can be tested by means of robotic spacecraft sent to Mars, and hypotheses that can be tested with or without the benefit of sample acquisition systems.
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February 2019 |
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XV Congresso Nazional de Scienze Planetarie,
Florence, Italy
Planetary Science Congress
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PERC International Symposium on Dust and Parent Bodies 2019 (IDP2019),
Chiba, Japan
The objective of this symposium is to share state-of-the-art research on dust delivered to Earth and its parent bodies in a multidisciplinary approach of planetary science and astronomy in light of the DESTINY+ mission.
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Lunar ISRU 2019 - Developing a New Space Economy Through Lunar Resources and Their Utilization,
Columbia, Maryland
The world is going forward to the Moon, as has been seen by missions this century. Information from this workshop will be useful to both government and industry leaders in evolving near-term and future development priorities and plans that will enable sustainable human exploration and promote the commercialization of space.
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Thermal Models for Planetary Science III (TherMoPS III),
Budapest, Hungar
The main topic of this meeting will be the modeling and interpretation of thermal emission measurements of small bodies in our solar system.
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4th International Conference On Atomic and Molecular Physics,
Singapore
Molecular Physics 2019 is a standout amongst the most prepared teaches and might be the most settled through its thought of Astronomy. Material science crosses with various interdisciplinary domains of research, for example, Astrophysics, Biophysics, Computational Physics, Quantum Chemistry, and others. New musings in physics every now and again clear up the fundamental parts of different sciences while opening new roads of research. The gathering course of action intends to scatter the movements of research in theoretical and molecular physics to the overall gathering by influencing a phase for dynamic venture, to exchange of aptitude and level instinct from masters, scientists, and educators.
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Workshop on In-Situ Exploration of the Ice Giants,
Marseille, France
A workshop to address scientific and technological topics relevant to the entry probe exploration of ice giant atmospheres, including scientific questions, how to achieve them, and technological challenges. The workshop will also focus on potential mission concepts and international cooperation, with an emphasis on probe studies of the ice giants in the framework of future NASA-ESA collaborations. The Workshop on In Situ Exploration of the Ice Giants will take place at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (https://www.lam.fr/) in a three-day science program comprising themed sessions, and featuring a mixture of invited reviews, invited and contributed talks, and posters. The workshop will cover topics ranging from the link between the formation conditions of the ice giant planets and atmospheric composition, measurement techniques, instrumentation, and technologies, and mission concepts. Invited speakers will include international experts in the origin, formation, and evolution of giant planets, giant planet atmospheres, instrumentation for in situ measurements of atmospheres, entry and descent probes and their technologies, future technology needs and development, and what the ice giants can tell us about exoplanetary systems.
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March 2019 |
| 4-8
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Kepler and K2 Science Conference V,
Glendale, California
The meeting will be a celebration of Kepler's 10 years in space!
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Centaur Exploration Workshop: The Roots of Activity,
Orlando, Florida
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Large Surveys with Small Telescopes: Past, Present, and Future,
Bamberg, Germany
Large wide-field surveys have been carried out since more than a century, starting with the Carte du Ciel in the late nineteenth century, and have been recorded on photographic plates. With the advent of CCD detectors, monitoring the sky became even more intense. Wide-field surveys are carried out with small telescopes and cameras. Already with the Henry Draper Memorial project, spectroscopy became an important scientific technique for such surveys, early-on with objective prisms and latey with multi-fiber instruments. Most ongoing surveys are dedicated to specific scientific aims, such as search for MACHOS, exoplanet transits, or nearby asteroids, but provide data sets for a wide range of astrophysics research such as binary light curves, stellar pulsations, and eruptions to name a few. Many future surveys will also be based on small telescopes, both on ground and in space. The information stored in photographic plates distributed around the globe became accessible only recently, by digitization, calibration, and integration into data bases such as DASCH or APPLAUSE. Because a huge amount of data is piling up in the data bases of the different projects, an important task is to combine the information and harvest it in an optimum way. To this end, the meeting aims to bring together researchers working on the photographic heritage, with those involved in ongoing and future digital surveys. Combing data sets requires in-depth knowledge of calibration. Studying the objects requires the sophisticated tools of astroinformatics (big data, deep learning), which shall be addressed in the conference’ program.
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50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#lpsc2019),
The Woodlands
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Life3E'2019: Search for Life, from Early Earth to Exoplanets,
Quy Nhon, Vietnam
The goal of the conference is to bring together the interdisciplinary community required to address the challenging and fundamental questions that have fascinated and intrigue scientists, philosophers, and the general public alike since antiquity: Where, when and how did life emerge and evolve on Earth? What are the conditions under which life can exist? Does life exist elsewhere in the universe and, if it does, how can it be detected and studied?
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NASEM's Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS),
Washington, D.C.
The CAPS will issue reports that will provide guidance to federal agencies that support astrobiology and planetary science research. The CAPS scope spans space-based and supporting ground-based planetary research within our own planetary system, including, for example, geosciences, atmospheres, particles, and fields of planets, moons, and small bodies, as well as astrobiology, planetary astronomy, and planetary protection. The CAPS's scope also includes appropriate cross-disciplinary areas and consideration of budget and programmatic aspects of the implementation of the decadal survey.
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New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics IV: Astrochemistry, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life,
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
This is the fourth of the "New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics” meeting series aimed at stressing the importance of stellar physics to understand the properties of stars, their progeny, and stellar systems at different scales. The proposed event for 2019 intends to convene researchers and young scholars from several fields to show the latest results on a number of interdisciplinary topics and enable cross-fertilization between scientists in the various disciplines. It will also be a good opportunity to gain insight into the future instrumentation from the ground and space that will substantially contribute to the exploration of the solar system and beyond in search of clues for understanding how life emerged from cosmic and planetary precursors.
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The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s and Beyond (#landscape2019),
Potomac, Maryland
The purpose of this symposium is to provide the astrophysics community with a forum to hear and discuss science priorities, mission concepts, and enabling capabilities expected to be assessed by the upcoming Astro2020 Decadal Survey by the National Academies.
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2nd International Conference on Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Astrobiology,
Auckland, New Zealand
Conference Series LLC Ltd invites participants from all over the world to attend the conference. Meet experts in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrobiology at ASTRONOMY CONGRESS 2019. Astronomy Congress 2019 aims to bring together a multi-disciplinary group of scientists and engineers to present and exchange breakthrough ideas relating to Early Universe, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Astronomy, Gravitational Physics, Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics, Large-Scale Structures, Stellar Formation and Evolution, Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics, Celestial Mechanics, Theoretical Astronomy and Astrophysics, Interdisciplinary Studies, Space Observation and Exploration, Structure and Evolution of the Cosmos, Unsolved Problems in Astronomy. It promotes top-level research and to globalize the quality research in general, thus making discussions, presentations, and contributions more internationally competitive.
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Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy,
Santa Barbara, California
Aimed to bring together experts in exoplanet science and stellar astrophysics to foster the unique synergy between these fields and capitalize on two powerful upcoming datasets.
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The 9th International Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse (IWOE9),
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Each year since 2010, the International Occultation Timing Association, Middle East section (IOTA/ME) holds an annual international workshop on occultation and eclipse. Main topics of the workshop include a wide range of research related to occultation and eclipsing systems including: asteroid and lunar occultations; trans-neptunian objects and comets; observation processing and timing; transit of exoplanets and big data; and solar system objects.
The Ninth International Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse will be held at Dubai Astronomy Group from April 16-17, 2019.
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4th Edition of International Conference on Advanced Spectroscopy, Crystallography, and Applications in Modern Chemistry,
Rome, Italy
EuroSciCon invites participants from all over the world to attend 4th Edition of International Conference on Advanced Spectroscopy, Crystallograph,y and Applications in Modern Chemistry. The conference will include prompt keynote presentations, oral talks, poster presentations, and exhibitions. The main highlights are Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy Types; Crystallography in Biology; Chemical Crystallography; Biological Structure Determination; Application in Modern Chemistry; Electron Crystallography; Recent Development in the X-Ray Studies; Advances in Neutron Diffraction. For more details visit: https://crystallography.euroscicon.com/call-for-abstracts
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2019 IAA Planetary Defense Conference (PDC),
Washington, DC
The biannual conference brings together world experts to discuss the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets and actions that might be taken to deflect a threatening object: key international and political developments; advancements in NEO discovery; new NEO characterization results; deflection and disruption modeling and testing; mission and campaign design; impact consequences; disaster response; impact risk assessment and decision to act; and public education and communication. The conference will include a hypothetical NEO/Earth impact event scenario that will be part of the conference (similar to what was done at the 2013, 2015, and 2017 conferences). Conference attendees may also use the hypothetical scenario as their topic for papers and presentations.
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May 2019 |
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ExoComets: Understanding the Composition of Planetary Building Blocks,
Leiden, the Netherlands
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New Horizons in Planetary Systems with ALMA,
Victoria, Canada
A science conference jointly organized by NRC Herzberg in Victoria, BC and NRAO in Charlottesville, VA under the auspices of the NAASC (North American ALMA Science Center). This meeting will have a broad scope, including planetary systems in formation within protoplanetary disks, minor objects in the solar system, debris disks and exoplanets, with a focus on, but not limited to, ALMA observations and/or talks related to areas of ALMA observations. As the name suggests, we plan to highlight results from the New Horizons spacecraft, which will have its KBO flyby in January 2019.
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| 14-16
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The Human to Mars Summit,
Washington, D.C.
The Humans To Mars Summit (H2M) embodies the core mission of Explore Mars, Inc., which is to advance humanity to the Martian surface by the 2030s. The 2019 Summit will feature a diverse lineup of topics, technologies, breakout sessions, and audience participation that will address the future challenges and progress of human exploration of Mars. Speakers will include high-ranking NASA officials, industry executives, experts from diverse fields (including science, engineering, and policy), representatives from the entertainment industry, international luminaries, and STEM education professionals. H2M 2019 will present the latest on: Apollo Moon Landing: 50th Anniversary; Mars science and robotic precursor missions; Utilizing the Moon to enable human exploration of Mars; Insight, the 2020 Rover, and future science missions; Feeding Mars: Agriculture, synthetic biology, 3-D printing Diplomacy, international collaboration, and Mars exploration; Living off the land: In-situ resource utilization; How the Gateway will be utilized to advance human exploration of Mars; The partnership between the entertainment industry and space exploration; and Innovating our way to Mars.
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2nd European Physics Congress,
Berlin, Germany
The main theme is "Highlighting the Innovations and Challenges in the Field of Physics" which covers a wide range of critically important sessions. European Physics Congress is a novel chance to deliberate and share innovative and theoretical knowledge on physics and those in other related concepts of physics. It will provide a gathering for researchers in demonstrating and recreation to trade the data and discuss new ideas that benefit a wide area of accelerating engineering and technology. European Physics Congress is concerned with all aspects of nature, covering the behavior of objects under the action of given forces and the nature and origin of gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear force fields. The goal of Physics Congress 2019 is to formulate comprehensive principles that bring together and explain all discernible phenomena. Physics is a broad discipline which is often broken down into several sub-disciplines. These disciplines concern themselves with differing areas of physics work.
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| 20-24
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Planet-Star Connections in the Era of TESS and Gaia,
Santa Barbara, California
Stellar properties and behavior play a key role in addressing many pressing questions in exoplanet science, from breaking the stellar activity barrier for radial velocity planets to understanding how stellar environments affect planet formation and habitability. TESS and Gaia are improving stellar characterization by orders of magnitude in precision and sample size. Addressing both observations and theory, the conference will focus on recent advances in translating this new knowledge of stars into detecting and characterizing exoplanets and understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability. Members of the stellar community will share the latest results in characterizing and understanding stars, and members of the planetary community will share applications of planet-star connections and emphasize what stellar knowledge is most important in addressing open questions in exoplanet science.
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European Lunar Symposium,
Manchester, United Kingdom
One of the main aims of this meeting is to bring together the European scientific community interested in various aspects of lunar exploration. In addition, lunar experts from countries engaged in launching lunar missions are also invited to attend this meeting.
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Ocean Worlds 4,
Houston, Texas
In this, the fourth meeting in the Ocean Worlds series, we focus on the ice-water interactions occurring within ocean worlds beyond Earth, from a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspective.
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3rd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science: Demographics of Exoplanetary Systems,
Vietri sul Mare, Italy
The School is aimed to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art picture of a variety of relevant aspects of the fast-developing, highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet research. The lecture topics will be focused on the exoplanet demographics and unveiling planet formation and evolution. The lectures will be delivered by five senior researchers to an audience of graduate students, Ph.D. students, and young post-docs.
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Planetary Dynamics 2019,
Heidelberg, Germany
The conference aims to bring together experts and students working in the field of extrasolar planets and planetary dynamics. We hope to discuss a variety of dynamical problems such as resonant and near-resonant pairs and chains; secular dynamics; chaos; three-dimensional structure and Lidov-Kozai mechanisms; formation and stability of S- and P- type planets in binaries; post-MS evolution of multiple plane systems; solar system dynamics; and much more.
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The Main Belt: A Gateway to the Formation and Early Evolution of the Solar System,
Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy
This workshop brings together experts to establish the current understanding of main-belt-asteroid science, as well as to debate future directions for investigation. The workshop will stimulate discussions about accretion, chemistry, collisions, dynamics, geophysics, and meteorites, and is limited to approximately 100 attendees.
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234th Meeting of the American Astronomical Survey,
St. Louis, Missouri
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Impacts and Their Role in the Evolution of Life,
Tällberg, Siljan crater area, Sweden
Topics covered by the conference will range from the role of impacts in the early history of the solar system over impacts physics, the characterisation of impactors (asteroids, meteorites, comets, etc.) and impact sites to the role impacts could have played in the emergence and evolution of life and their possible threat to life on Earth. Two further important aspects will be discussed: the geoconservation of impact sites as well as the use of impacts in education and outreach in order to get the general public interested in science. The conference will be held at Hotel Dalecarlia, in the picturesque village of Tällberg in the Siljan crater area with good connections to Stockholm International Airport. Excursions to geologically interesting sites in the area are planned. We are looking forward to receiving your contribution to our event. Since up to 10 bursaries for students and early career scientists will be available, we kindly ask you to forward this invitation to possibly interested people. Deadline for abstract submission is March 31st, 2019.
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50th Annual Meeting of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) of the AAS,
Boulder, Colorado
Annual meeting of dynamical astronomers, including planetary dynamics such as the dynamics of planets, rings, moons, asteroids, comets, etc. as well as planet formation, solar system history, astrometry, ephemerides, etc.
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Zooming in on Star Formation,
Nafplio, Greece
The conference is intended to celebrate the rich career of Professor Åke Nordlund (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and in particular his contributions to the field of star formation with excursions into other fields in which Åke has extensively worked such as the modeling of stellar atmospheres, numerical code development, and more recently his work in the area of planet formation.
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10th Joint Meeting of The Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS),
Golden, Colorado
The Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) will convene their tenth joint meeting on June 11-14, 2019 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA. Given the rapidly increasing interest on ISRU activities in space, the Moon, Mars, and asteroids from space agencies around the globe, the private sector, academic institutions, and from recent legislation introduced for space-resource commercial exploitation, this meeting will provide a unique and timely forum for discussion on the near- and long-term opportunities for space resources.
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TRAPPIST-1: Towards the Comparative Study of Temperate Terrestrial Worlds,
Liege, Belgium
This multidisciplinary conference aims to gather scientists involved or interested in the study of TRAPPIST-1, to enable them to share their most recent observational and theoretical results about the system, and to discuss its astrobiological importance and its future characterization with upcoming giant ground- and space-based facilities.
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Exoclimes Simulation Platform (ESP) Inaugural Summer School,
Guarda Val, Switzerland
The Exoclimes Simulation Platform (ESP) is a vision to provide the scientific community with publicly-available computer codes designed to simulate the climates of exoplanets, including radiative transfer, chemistry, and fluid dynamics. It is based on the belief that a healthy exoplanetary atmospheres community should compete to publish the best ideas, rather than be constrained by proprietary software. It is also based on the belief that science should be reproducible and accessible to everyone who is interested.
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From Stars to Planets II — Connecting Our Understanding of Star and Planet Formation,
Gothenburg, Sweden
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International Meeting on Paleoclimate: Changes and Adaptation,
Coimbra, Portugal
Our goal is to stimulate an observational attitude and to promote an open discussion on paleoclimatic signals in order to improve our look at the present and to ground future perspectives.
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4th Planetary Data Workshop (#planetdata2019),
Flagstaff, Arizona
The wealth of data available for planetary research has created the need for new tools and capabilities for storing, delivering, and working with the data using cutting-edge methods. The goal of these “planetary data” workshops is to bring together planetary data users, space mission data providers, data archivists, and software and technology experts to exchange ideas on current capabilities and needs for improved and new tools that can be used to address evolving needs in planetary research and data analysis.
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Royal Astronomical Society 2019 National Astronomy Meeting,
Lancashire, England
NAM2019 will bring together hundreds of delegates from the UK astronomy community and will feature a wide-ranging scientific programme in parallel with exciting outreach and cultural events. Keep an eye on the meeting website, Twitter feed, and emails for more details.
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2019 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon),
Seattle, Washington
AbSciCon 2019 will provide a forum for reporting on new discoveries, sharing data and insights, advancing collaborative efforts and initiating new ones, planning new projects, and educating the next generation of astrobiologists. The conference will span five days and will feature plenary sessions on current and thought-provoking topics, topical sessions, evening programs, and public and educational events.
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The Planetary CubeSats Symposium,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
The Planetary CubeSats/Smallsats Symposiums are held annually at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, with the participation of CubeSat scientists and developers. Discussions include current missions, mission concepts, and opportunities for future mission selections. The sessions also include panel discussions about strategic and technical aspects of planetary CubeSats, and an afternoon poster session provides mission proposers the opportunity to meet with vendors and suppliers.
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International Planetary Probe Workshop 2019,
Oxford, United Kington
As in previous years, the IPPW brings together scientists, engineers, technologists, mission designers, space agency representatives, and students from around the world for a collaboration focused on exploring solar system destinations through in-situ missions. IPPW 2019 workshop will continue to build upon the IPPW tradition by encouraging international cooperation in planetary probe missions, the development of new and emerging technologies, and scientific discoveries. The Workshop on 8-12 July will be preceded on 6-7 July by a Short Course which will be of interest to all members of the community.
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Pluto System After New Horizons (#plutokbo2019),
Laurel, Maryland
The conference will provide an opportunity to summarize our understanding of the Pluto system and the Kuiper belt following the New Horizons encounters with Pluto and 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule). It will also serve as the nucleus for a forthcoming volume in the University of Arizona Space Science Series.
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Great Barriers in Planet Formation,
Palm Cove, Australia
We are made of dust. How does this dust collect in protoplanetary discs to form planets like the Earth and people like us? Since 2015 a huge number of new observations have been made with ALMA, SPHERE, and other telescopes. Can we make sense of them? We aim to bring together theory and observations to understand how nature overcomes the 'Great Barriers' in the planet formation process. The conference will follow a 3-week program of activities on protoplanetary discs at Monash University in Melbourne as part of the DUSTBUSTERS collaboration.
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Ninth International Conference on Mars,
Pasadena, California
In addition to discussing science results from past and active robotic missions, telescopic studies, laboratory analyses of SNC meteorites, terrestrial analog studies, and numerical models, we anticipate new geophysical understanding gained from the InSight mission, and a review of objectives for several spacecraft scheduled for launch in 2020 from public, private, and international institutions.
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NASA Exploration Science Forum,
NASA Ames/Mountain View, California
Three-day conference on science and exploration topics related to the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and the moons of Mars. Sponsored by the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
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16th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS),
Singapore
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TESS Science Conference I,
Cambridge, Massachuesetts
TESS Science Conference I is the first conference dedicated to TESS mission science, including but not limited to exoplanets, asteroseismology, stellar binaries, variable stars, and extragalactic astronomy (e.g., active galactic nuclei and supernovae). The conference will cover all aspects of the mission, from TESS data analysis, through follow-up observations, to the impact of discoveries made with TESS data on theoretical understanding.The conference will take place at the beginning of TESS’s second year of operations when the satellite is scheduled to transition from surveying the southern ecliptic hemisphere to the northern ecliptic hemisphere. This will be an auspicious time to bring together experts on all aspects of the mission to discuss achievements made during the first year, as well as identifying potential improvements and lessons learned to be implemented in the second year.
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New Cometary Insights from the Close Approach of 46P/Wirtanen: A Symposium in Celebration of Mike A'Hearn,
College Park, Maryland
A symposium at the University of Maryland in College Park in celebration of the contributions that Mike A'Hearn made to cometary science. In Mike's honor, this symposium will focus on results from observations of comet 46P/Wirtanen (and the other recent bright comets) to allow the compilation of individual studies into a comprehensive understanding of the comet. We encourage comet scientists of all types as well as anyone who knew and worked with Mike in any capacity to come and participate in this event and to reflect on his legacy.
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Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe VI,
Evanston, Illinois
Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe 6 will explore opportunities and challenges of massively parallel time domain surveys, coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. The interdisciplinary agenda includes future and ongoing science investigations, information infrastructure for publishing observations in real time, as well as novel data science to classify events and systems to optimize follow-up campaigns. Time domain astronomy is at the fore of modern astrophysics and crosses fields from solar physics and solar system objects, through stellar variability, to explosive phenomena at galactic and cosmological distances. Recent rapid progress by instruments in space and on the ground has been toward a continuous record of the electromagnetic sky with ever increasing coverage, sensitivity, and temporal resolution. With the advent of gravitational wave and neutrino observatories, we are witnessing the birth of multi-messenger astronomy.
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Extreme Solar Systems V,
Reykjavik, Iceland
This conference, the fourth in a series that began in 2007 (Santorini meeting on Extreme Solar Systems, followed by ExSS II in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2011, and ExSS III in Hawaii, in 2015), will cover all aspects of research on exoplanets.
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Habitability: Producing Conditions Conducive to Life (#1st1e9),
Big Sky, Montana
The astrophysical processes (e.g., accretion, differentiation, bombardment) that created the worlds we observe today also created at least one world where life has emerged and thrived. This topical conference on Habitability, the fourth and final installment of the LPI’s First Billion Years initiative, will focus on the production of habitable environments early in the history of our solar system, the emergence of life on Earth, and extensions to extrasolar systems.
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NASEM's Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS),
Irvine, California
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint the Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences (CAPS) to operate as an ad-hoc committee. The overarching purpose of the committee is to support scientific progress in astrobiology and planetary science and assist the federal government in integrating and planning programs in these fields by providing advice on the implementation of decadal survey recommendations. The CAPS provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science between the research community, the federal government, and the interested public. The CAPS will issue reports that will provide guidance to federal agencies that support astrobiology and planetary science research. The CAPS scope spans space-based and supporting ground-based planetary research within our own planetary system, including, for example, geosciences, atmospheres, particles and fields of planets, moons, and small bodies, as well as astrobiology, planetary astronomy, and planetary protection. The CAPS's scope also includes appropriate cross-disciplinary areas and consideration of budget and programmatic aspects of the implementation of the decadal survey. The Committee will build on the current decadal survey of the field, "Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022" (VVPS), and monitor the progress of its recommended priorities for the most important scientific and technical activities in that report and recommendations in the mid-decadal review report due to be issued in 2017. The committee will carry out its charge by undertaking the following tasks: at each of its in-person meetings, as appropriate, the committee may prepare concise assessments of progress on the implementation of the decadal survey's recommended scientific and technical activities; at an in-person meeting, the committee may prepare a concise report with advice on the preparation for future decadal and mid-decadal studies; and for advisory activities assessed to require a more in-depth review than is possible through the normal operation of the CAPS, the committee will assist the Academies in formulating the task and committee membership for such studies which will be designed as separate tasks.
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2019 GSA Annual Meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition
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| 30-Oct 3
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Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI,
Brasilia, Brazil
LMI VI will provide a forum for discussion of pertinent advances in multidisciplinary research on planetary and terrestrial impact cratering, and the effects of this process on target rocks and minerals. Remote sensing, geophysical and numerical modeling, geological, mineralogical and geochemical, and astrobiological results and implications will be discussed. In addition, the future of impact cratering research, in the broadest sense, will be mapped out.
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October 2019 |
| 21-25
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70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC),
Washington, DC
As a nation we invite the world to commemorate that “one giant leap for mankind” and celebrate the international accomplishments and partnerships that have become the hallmarks of space exploration. Today the broader space community stands at a pivotal juncture in the course of future human space exploration. To succeed we must come together to create a unified vision that can be realized through the effective use of our collective assets and resources. It is in that spirit of collaboration that we would host the global space community in Washington, D.C., to envision what the next “giant leap” will be.
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November 2019 |
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COSPAR 2019,
Herzliya, Israel
The 2019 COSPAR symposium will be held in Herzlyia, Israel. Topics for this meeting will include satellite and nanosatellite observations of ground and underground soil; ground water, seas, and oceans; atmosphere and ionosphere; magnetosphere; solar system objects (planets, asteroids, interplanetary space); extrasolar planets and the interstellar medium; the Milky Way and intergalactic space; education for space engineering; and space sciences.
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January 29-February 1,
2019
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lunar ISRU 2019 - Developing a New Space Economy Through Lunar Resources and Their Utilization
February 20-22,
2019
Columbia, Maryland
50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#lpsc2019)
March 18-22,
2019
The Woodlands
The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s and Beyond (#landscape2019)
April 1-3,
2019
Potomac, Maryland
Ocean Worlds 4
May 21-23,
2019
Houston, Texas
10th Joint Meeting of The Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS)
June 11-14,
2019
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June 18-20,
2019
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July 22-26,
2019
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Brasilia, Brazil
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2019
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January 13-17,
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November 13,
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Columbia, Maryland
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October 9-11,
2018
Houston, Texas
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October 1-2,
2018
Houston, Texas
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September 30-October 2,
2018
Flagstaff, Arizona
NASA Technosignatures Workshop (#technosigs18)
September 26-28,
2018
Houston, Texas
Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets III (#CCTP3)
August 27-30,
2018
Houston, Texas
Experimental Analysis of the Outer Solar System Workshop (#ExOSS)
August 15-17,
2018
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Lunar Polar Volatiles (#LPV2018)
August 7-9,
2018
Laurel, Maryland
81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society
July 22-27,
2018
Moscow, Russia
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June 18-22,
2018
Lakewood, Colorado
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