Eugene (Gene) George Stansbery, 68, a longtime resident of Friendswood, Texas. passed away on August 11, 2023. Born to Jack and LaVerne Stansbery in Texarkana, Stanbery’s earliest memory was of a [...]
Erin Lindsey Walton Hauck passed away on September 21, 2022, at the age of 44 following a battle with cancer. Walton was born on August 4, 1978, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. She grew up [...]
Stephen F. Wolf, a professor of chemistry at Indiana State University (ISU) in Terre Haute, Indiana, passed away unexpectedly on April 22, 2023, at the age of 58. Wolf was a highly respected [...]
Peter Gierasch, an astronomer at Cornell University whose mathematical models unveiled the turbulent vortices, tempestuous eddies, and atmospheric tumult arising on other worlds — long before [...]
James (Jim) Burke, an American lunar settlement and exploration expert and one of the pioneers of America’s space program, passed away on August 19, 2023, at the age of 97. Burke was born in Los [...]
Theodore (Ted) E. Bunch, 87, passed away on Sunday, March 26, 2023, in Prescott, Arizona. Bunch was a world-class expert in meteorite identification and classification and was recognized for his [...]
Pulat Babadzhanov, former head of the Department of Meteor Astronomy of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Tajik SSR Academy of Sciences, passed away on February 10, 2023. He was an expert in [...]
Planetary science education recently lost a pioneer and one of its finest members when Jaclyn Sue (Jackie) Bird Allen, 73, of Placitas, New Mexico, passed away peacefully on May 4, 2023. In 1991, [...]
The first Planetary Protection in Practice workshop was held virtually on October 18–19, 2022. The purpose of the two-day workshop was to (1) build an inclusive, diverse community of practice [...]
The Apollo 17 ANGSA (Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis Initiative) Workshop was held as a hybrid meeting on October 26–28, 2022 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). The workshop was [...]