Meeting Highlights

The Pluto System After New Horizons (PSANH) conference was held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, on July 14–18, 2019. The conference provided an opportunity to summarize our understanding of the Pluto system and the Kuiper belt following the New Horizons encounters with Pluto and 2014 MU69 (nicknamed “Ultima Thule”). Contributions spanning all […]

The 2019 Lunar ISRU Workshop was held at USRA Headquarters in Columbia, Maryland, on July 15–17. An international group of approximately 200 people from Europe, Australia, Canada, Korea, and Japan participated in this workshop, and represented government, commercial, and academic institutions. The workshop brought together several broad communities not accustomed to working together: policy, legislation, law, […]

The sixth Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution Conference (LMI VI) was held from September 30 to October 3, 2019, at the FINATEC (Fundação De Empreendimentos Científicos E Tecnológicos) on the University of Brasília (UnB) campus in Brasilia. The event attracted 90 participants from 21 countries. The LMI conference series arose out of the Workshop on Cryptoexplosions and […]