Monday, February 28, 2011

EVENT OF THE MONTH: MARCH 2011

42nd ANNUAL LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE


Date: March 7-11
Venue: The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, The Woodlands, Texashe Woodlands, Texas.

NASA researchers and other scientists will present findings that provide new insights into the evolution of thesolar system during the 42nd annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The conference is hosted by the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. The institute is managed by the Universities Space Research Association, a national, nonprofit consortium of universities chartered in 1969 by the National Academy of Sciences at NASA's request.

This conference brings together international specialists in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the latest results of research in planetary science. The schedule for the conference consists of parallel sessions of contributed presentations that emphasize planetary processes in addition to presentations related to planetary bodies. Contributed abstracts were peer reviewed, and selections for presentation were based on the overall relevance of the subject matter to the conference.

Key events include the unveiling of future planetary science strategy; early science results from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency mission, called Hayabusa, that returned the first particle samples from an asteroid; presentations about the recent comet Hartley 2 flyby; and the upcoming MESSENGER mission, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

The conference also will include a briefing about the Planetary Decadal Survey at 5:30 p.m. CST on March 7. The survey is a strategy released by the National Research Council in Washington to prioritize missions, research areas and observations ten or more years into the future. The briefing's featured speaker will be Steve Squyres of Cornell University. He is the survey's chair and principal investigator for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers.

Link: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/, http://www.nasa.gov/






1 comment:

  1. Its an yeoman's service rendered by you AKN to the cause of science communication -please keep it up!
    Thanks for covering the conference...

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