6th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
January 17–18, 2012
Agenda and Presentations
Tuesday, January 17
| 9:00–9:15 a.m. | Welcome: SBAG activities since last meeting. Roadmap status (Mark Sykes, PSI) |
| 9:15–10:00 a.m. | HQ Report (Lindley Johnson, NASA Headquarters) |
| 10:00–10:30 a.m. | OSIRIS-Rex (Beth Clark Joseph, Ithaca College) |
| 10:30–10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45–11:45 a.m. | Dawn mission status (Chris Russell, UCLA) |
| 11:45–1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15–1:30 p.m. | Status of Marco Polo (Andy Cheng, JHU/APL) |
| 1:30–1:45 p.m. | Hayabusa Samples (Mike Zolensky/Paul Abell, NASA JSC) |
| 1:45–2:15 p.m. | Status of Hayabusa 2 (Paul Abell, NASA JSC) |
| 2:15–2:45 p.m. | PDS Small Bodies Ferret - A tool for finding asteroid and comet data in the PDS (Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of Maryland) |
| 2:45–3:15 p.m. | Q&A with Jim Green (NASA HQ) |
| 3:15–3:30 p.m. | Break (or vice versa) |
| 3:30–4:15 p.m. | Discussion: Small Bodies Science Institute White Paper (Mark Sykes, PSI) |
| 4:15–4:30 p.m. | Discussion: How do we prioritize funding for technology
development? (John Dankanich, NASA GRC) |
| 4:30–5:00 p.m. | Discussion on small bodies science enabled by balloon-based facilities: What are the driving requirements? (Karl Hibbitts, JHU/APL) |
| Wednesday, January 18 | |
| 9:00–10:00 a.m. | Strategic Knowledge Gap Special Activity Team activity for HEOMD (Mike Wargo, NASA Headquarters) |
| 10:00–10:30 a.m. | NASA Johnson Space Center human mission to an asteroid simulation (Brent Garry, PSI) |
| 10:30–10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45–11:15 a.m. | Recent human asteroid mission simulation underwater: NEEMO (Paul Abell, NASA JSC) |
| 11:15–11:30 a.m. | Minor Planet Center update (Tim Spahr, CfA) |
| 11:30 | Noon Review, Findings, Future meetings and activities schedule |