14th MEETING OF THE NASA SMALL BODIES ASSESSMENT GROUP

January 27– 29, 2016
Monrovia, CA

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NOTE: All times are in Pacific Standard Time

Agenda

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

 
8:30 a.m. Welcome & Logistics
     
8:40 a.m. Review and discussion of SBAG 13 findings (video) Lindley Johnson
     
9:10 a.m. Planetary Science Division update (video) David Schurr
     
10:00 a.m. BREAK  
     
10:15 a.m. NEO Program status and activities (video) Lindley Johnson
     
11:10 p.m. Arecibo Observatory (video)
 
Status from NSF
Jim Ulvestad
 
Status from Arecibo Observatory
Patrick Taylor
     
12:00 p.m. LUNCH  
     
1:30 p.m. New Horizons (video) Alan Stern
     
2:15 p.m. Comparative KBOlogy (SBAG Early Career Recipient) (video) Bryan Holler
     
2:30 p.m. Rosetta (video) Art Chmielewski
     
3:00 p.m. BREAK  
 
3:15 p.m. NEOWISE (video) Gerbs Bauer
     
3:45 p.m. OSIRIS-REx (video) Dante Lauretta
     
4:15 p.m. New and updated ISIS applications for small bodies (video) Tim Titus
     
4:30 p.m. Hayabusa 2 (video) Yuichi Tsuda
Makoto Yoshikawa
     
5:00 p.m. Adjourn  
     
Thursday, January 28, 2016

     
8:30 a.m. HEOMD’s Small Bodies Activities (video) Ben Bussey
     
8:50 a.m. Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) (video)
 
Mission Overview
Michele Gates
 
FAST Report
Dan Mazanek
     
10:30 a.m. BREAK
 
     
10:45 a.m. AIDA (video) Andy Rivkin
     
11:15 a.m. SBAG Goals Document (video)  
 
Overview, Executive Summary
Nancy Chabot
 
Science
Tim Swindle
 
Planetary Defense
Tommy Grav
 
Human Exploration
Paul Abell
     
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
     
1:30 p.m. SBAG Technology Roadmap (video) John Dankanich
Carolyn Mercer
     
  Discovery Missions in Phase A  
2:00 p.m.
Psyche (video)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton
2:25 p.m.
NEOCam (video)
Amy Mainzer
2:50 p.m.
Lucy (video)
Hal Levison
     
3:15 p.m. BREAK  
     
3:30 p.m. PSD Research & Analysis Program Status (video) Tom Statler
     
4:15 p.m. Open Microphone Discussion (video)
A time to discuss any items presented previously in more detail, such as the SBAG Goals document, any new topics, any thoughts for agenda items for future SBAG meetings, and any suggestions for potential findings from SBAG 14.
     
5:00 p.m. Adjourn  
     
5:30 p.m. Meeting of the SBAG Steering Committee  
     
Friday, January 29, 2016

     
8:30 a.m. Dawn (video) Carol Raymond
     
9:00 a.m. Update on JWST and small body science (video) Stefanie Milam
     
  Cubesats and Small Bodies Missions (video)  
9:20 a.m. NASA’s cubesat technology as related to small bodies missions  
 
STMD perspective
Andy Petro
 
SMD perspective
David Pierce
     
10:20 a.m. BREAK  
     
10:30 a.m. NEA Scout (video) Julie Castillo-Rogez
     
10:50 a.m. SIMPLEx mission: Q-PACE (video) Josh Colwell
     
11:10 a.m. SIMPLEx technology development: DAVID (video) Geoffrey Landis
     
(To express interest in presenting other small bodies cubesat concepts at a future SBAG meeting, please email Nancy.[email protected])
     
11:30 p.m. Discussion of steering committee meeting and findings (video) Nancy Chabot
     
12:00 p.m Adjourn