DUST, ATMOSPHERES, AND PLASMAS (DAP) 2017

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The Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2017) workshop will be a forum:

(i) to discuss our current understanding of the surface environment
of the Moon, the moons of Mars, and asteroids,
(ii) to share new results from past and ongoing missions to airless
bodies and comets, and
(iii) to describe expectations for planned upcoming missions to
airless bodies and comets.

Location: Boulder
Host: LASP
Date: January 11-13

It will be focused on the open science questions, the status and future of our supporting modeling and laboratory experimental capabilities, the definition of the required measurements and instrument capabilities for future investigations from orbit or
landed on surfaces.

The invited Speakers are:

Dan Britt: Surface Properties of Asteroids
Jim Burch: Rosetta Results on Cometary Plasmas
Jasper Halekas: Plasma Environment of the Moon
Vicky Hamilton: Osiris Rex
Sascha Kempf: Europa Dust Environment
Mark Showalter: Search for the dust torus around Mars
Jamey Szalay: Dust Environment of the Moon
Alexander Zakharov: Mars, Phobos, Deimos Dust environment

We plan to have numerous contributed talks and encourage your submission(s).

Abstract deadline is Sept. 15th, 2016 and can be submitted to [email protected].

 

Expression of Intent

The organizers:

Alan Stern and Mihaly Horanyi