18th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
January 17–18, 2018
NASA Ames Research Center
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NOTE: All times are given in Pacific Standard Time
Agenda and Presentations
| Wednesday, January 17 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome | Tim Swindle |
| 8:40 a.m. | Planetary Science Division overview (Recording) | Jim Green |
| 9:35 a.m. | Responses to SBAG 17 findings (Recording) | Lindley Johnson |
| 10:05 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:35 a.m. | 1I/2017 U1 (’Oumuamua) (Recording) | Karen Meech |
| 10:55 a.m. | Arecibo update (Recording) | Patrick Taylor |
| 11:10 a.m. | Arizona-JAXA workshop (Recording) | Tim Swindle |
| 11:25 a.m. | Accretion workshop (Recording) | Jeff Cuzzi |
| 11:45 a.m. | USGS mapping support for missions (Recording) | Lazslo Kestay |
| Noon | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 p.m. | MMX overview (Recording) | Tomoki Nakamura |
| 1:40 p.m. | Phobos/Deimos working group (Recording) | Tom Duxbury |
| 1:55 p.m. | MEGANE MMX Gamma-ray/Neutron Spectrometer (Recording) | David Lawrence |
| :2:10 p.m. | Hayabusa-2 (Recording) | Yuichi Tsuda |
| 2:30 p.m. | OSIRIS-REx (Recording) | Dante Lauretta |
| 2:50 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:15 p.m. | CAESAR (New Frontiers) (Recording) | Steve Squyres |
| 3:30 p.m. | Psyche (Recording) | Lindy Elkins-Tanton |
| 3:40 p.m. | Lucy (Recording) | Hal Levison |
| 3:50 p.m. | Dawn (Recording) | Carol Raymond |
| 4:05 p.m. | JWST proposals (Recording) | Stephanie Milam |
| 4:15 p.m. | Early career talk, “The delivery of water during impacts by carbonaceous chondrite-like impactors” (Recording) | Tarik Daly |
| 4:30 p.m. | Early career talk, "A Thermophysical Model of Phobos" (Recording) | Nathan Smith |
| 4:45 p.m. | Early career lightning talks (Recording)
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| 5:15 p.m. | Ames Center-wide Happy Hour (cash bar) in Building 3 Space Bar. SBAG attendees are invited. Maps will be provided at the meeting. | |
| Thursday, January 18 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Planetary Resources (Recording) | Chris Lewicki |
| 9:15 a.m. | NASA technology office (Recording) | Carolyn Mercer |
| 9:30 a.m. | Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies reports
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| 10:10 a.m. | Primitive Object Volatile Explorer (PrOVE) - Waypoints and Opportunistic Deep Space Missions to Comets (Recording) | Tilak Hewagama |
| 10:30 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 11:00 a.m. | SIMPLEX 2 (Recording) | Carolyn Mercer |
| 11:15 a.m. | NEOO program (Recording) | Kelly Fast |
| 11:30 a.m. | Planetary Defense Coordination Office (Recording) | Lindley Johnson |
| 11:50 p.m. | Tunguska Mini-Workshop (Recording) | David Morrison |
| Noon | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Small bodies in the CAPS report on planetary mission studies (Recording) | Bill McKinnon |
| 1:55 p.m. | Overview of Goals discussion | Tim Swindle |
| 2:00 p.m. | Common themes in small bodies missions (Recording) | Lindley Johnson |
| 2:15 p.m. | Goals - Resource Utilization (Recording) | Amara Graps |
| 2:35 p.m. | Goals - Human Exploration (Recording) | Dan Adamo |
| 3:00 p.m. | New Horizons report (Recording) | Alan Stern |
| 3:15 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Goals - Formation of the Solar System (Recording) | Andy Rivkin |
| 4:05 p.m. | Goals - Evolution of the Solar System (Recording) | Angela Stickle |
| 4:25 p.m. | Goals - Delivery of elements to initiate and sustain life (Recording) |
Lori Feaga |
| 4:45 p.m. | Goals - Processes in an active Solar System (Recording) | Julie Castillo-Rogez |
| 5:05 p.m. | Goals - Planetary Defense (Recording) | Paul Chodas |
| 5:25 p.m. | Recap – comments on common themes, volunteers (Recording) | |
| 5:45 p.m. | End of meeting | |