SEPTEMBER


11-14

The Role of Dust in the Formation of Stars, Garching, Germany. Contact: Hans Ulrich Kaufl, European Southern Observatory.

WWW: http://http.hq.eso.org/stardust.html

11-15

58th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Washington, D. C. Contact: Glenn MacPherson, Department of Mineral Sciences, MRC-NHB 119, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560. Phone: 202-357-2260; fax: 202-357-2476.

Internet: [email protected]

24-30

Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of Ares Vallis Region, Spokane, Washington. Field Trip I: Channeled Scablands (9/24-27); Field Trip II: Missoula Lake breakout (9/30), Moses Lake area, Washington. Contact: Publications and Program Services Department, LPI, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston TX 77058-1113. Phone: 713-486-2166; fax: 713-486-2160.

Internet: simmons@lpi.usra.edu

25-28

Land Satellite Information in the Next Decade, Vienna, Virginia. Contact: Chris Dyer. Phone: 301-493-0290 ext. 29; fax: 301-493-0208.

Internet: [email protected]

OCTOBER


8-13

27th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Kona, Hawaii. Contact: Karen Meech, University of Hawaii, Institute of Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu HI 96822.

Internet: [email protected]

Workshops in Conjunction with DPS Meeting, Kona, Hawaii:

8

Conference on Laboratory Measurements Related to Planetary Atmospheres. Contact: Kenneth Fox. Phone 301-314-9124; fax: 301-314-9121.

Internet: [email protected]

8

Workshop on Thermal Remote Sensing of Volcanos on Io and Earth. Contact: Rosaly Lopes Gautier, Phone: 818-393-4584; Internet: [email protected] or David Rothery, Phone: 1908-652124; Internet: [email protected].

14

Educator's Workshop. Contact: Linda French. Phone: 617-734-5200.

Internet: [email protected]

6-8

SPACE FRONTIERCON IV: "Space_Fiction or Frontier?", Los Angeles, California. Contact: Space Frontier Foundation, 16 First Avenue, Nyack NY 10960. Phone: 800-78S-PACE; fax: 212-387-8499 or 914-358-8415.

Internet: [email protected]

10-12

Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Based Systems for Space: 5th Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Contact: ESTEC Conference Bureau, P.O. Box 299, 220 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 1719 85005; fax: 31 1719 85658.

Internet: [email protected]

WWW: http://www.estec.esa.nl/aikbs.html

25-27

3rd Huntsville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts, Huntsville, Alabama. Contact: Susan Benefield.

Internet: [email protected]

WWW: http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/grb3.html

NOVEMBER


6-9

Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana. Contact: Vanessa George, 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder CO 80301. Phone: 303-447-2020; fax: 303-447- 1133.

26-Dec 1

International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR) 1995, Melbourne, Australia. Contact: Judy Cole, Science and Technology Corporation, 101 Research Drive, Hampton VA 23666-1340. Phone: 804-865-7604; fax: 804-865-8721.

Internet: [email protected]

DECEMBER


4-8

Science with the Hubble Space Telescope II, Paris, France. Contact:

Internet: [email protected]

WWW: http://http.hq.eso.org/hst2.html

11-15

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. Contact: AGU Meetings, 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington DC 20009. Phone: 202-462-6900; fax: 202-328- 0566.

JANUARY 1996


7-11

Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-96), Albuquerque, New Mexico. Includes: 1st Conference on Commercial Development of Space; 1st Conference on Next Generation Launch Systems; 1st Conference on Remote Sensing for Commercial, Civil, and Science Applications; 2nd Spacecraft Thermal Control Symposium; 13th Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion. Contact: Mohamed S. El-Genk, Technical and Publications Chair or Mary Bragg, Institute for Space & Nuclear Power Studies, University of New Mexico, School of Engineering, Albuquerque NM 87131-1341. Phone: 505-277-4950; fax: 505-277-2814.

Internet: [email protected]

22-26

New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa: Changing Perceptions of the Morphology, Dust Content, and Dust-Gas Ratios in Galaxies, Johannesburg, South Africa. Contact: David L. Block, Department of Computational & Applied Mathematics, Witwatersrand University, P.O. Box 60, WITS 2050, South Africa. Phone: 27-11-339-7965; fax: 27-11-716-3761.

29-Feb 2

OSETI II: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum, San Jose, California. Contact: Stuart A. Kingsley, The Columbus Optical SETI Observatory, 545 Northview Drive, Columbus OH 43209-1051. Phone: 614-258-7402; fax: 614-258-7459. Optical SETI BBS: 614-258-1710.

FEBRUARY


5-7

First ISU Symposium_Space of Service to Humanity: Preserving Earth and Improving Life, Strasbourg, France. Contact: Emma Moyen, International Space University, Parc d'Innovation, Boulevard Gonthier d'Andernach, 67400 Illkirch, France. Fax: 33 88 65 54 47.

Internet: [email protected]

12-14

Workshop on Evolution of Martian Volatiles, Houston, Texas. Contact: Publications and Program Services Department, LPI, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston TX 77058-1113. Phone: 713-486-2166; fax: 713-486-2160.

Internet: simmons@lpi.usra.edu

MARCH


11-14

Infrared Space Interferometry Workshop, Toledo, Spain. Contact: Margie Guitart, Secretary LOC, L.A.E.F.F., Apdo. 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34-1-813-1161; fax: 34-1-813- 1160.

Internet: [email protected]

18-22

27th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas. Contact: Publications and Program Services Department, LPI, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston TX 77058- 1113. Phone: 713-486-2166; fax: 713-486-2160.

Internet: simmons@lpi.usra.edu

JUNE


1-6

Space 96: The Fifth International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space and RCE II: The Second Conference on Robotics for Challenging Environments, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact: Dr. Stewart W. Johnson, Chair, Space and Robotics Conferences, Johnson and Associates, 820 Rio Arriba, S.E., Albuquerque NM 87123-5103. Phone: 505-298-2124; fax (by arrangement): 505-298-2124.

Internet: [email protected]

JULY


3-5

International Conference on the SL9-Jupiter Collision, Meudon, France. Contact: Agnes Fave, Conference SL9-Jupiter, DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France. Fax: 33 1 45 07 28 06.

Internet: [email protected]

8-12

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors, Versailles, France. Contact: ACM, Aeronomie CNRS, BP3, 91371 Verrieres, France.