20th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
January 29–31, 2019
Houston, TX
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Agenda and Presentations
| Tuesday, January 29 | ||
| 9:15 a.m. | Registration and networking | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Welcome (Recording) NASA Johnson Welcome (Recording) |
Tim Swindle |
| 10:00 a.m. | Early career talk (Prospecting for the Solar System's Original Planetesimals) (Recording) | Bryce Bolin |
| 10:15 a.m. | Early career talk (Planetary Defense, Centaur Exploration, and a Mission Agnostic Probe for Small Bodies Missions) (Recording) | Matt Marcus |
| 10:45 a.m. | New Horizons (2014 MU69 flyby) (Recording) | Alan Stern |
| 11:15 a.m. | Stellar occultations of small bodies (Recording) | Marc Buie |
| 11:30 a.m. | Planetary Science with Astrophysics Assets (Recording) | Gerbs Bauer |
| 11:45 a.m. | LSST (Recording) | Meg Schwamb |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:45 p.m. | TMT planetary science observations (Recording) | Christophe Dumas |
| 2:00 p.m. | CAESAR update (Recording) | Steve Squyres |
| 2:30 p.m. | GMT planetary science (Recording) | Anita Cochran |
| 2:45 p.m. | Preliminary findings from the NHATSchecker utility(Recording) | Dan Adamo |
| 3:05 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Workshop on exploration of interstellar objects (Recording) | Julie Castillo-Rogez |
| 4:00 p.m. | Hayabusa-2 update (Recording) | Yuichi Tsuda |
| 4:30 p.m. | ESA Comet Interceptor proposal (Recording) | Geraint Jones |
| 4:45 p.m. | Open microphone (Recording) | |
| 5:00 p.m. | End of day/Steering Committee meeting | |
| Wednesday, January 30 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | SPHERE (Recording) | Pierre Vernazza |
| 9:15 a.m. | OSIRIS-REx update (Recording) | Dante Lauretta |
| 9:45 a.m. | JSC Curatorial facility intro (Recording) | Kevin Righter |
| 10:05 a.m. | Extraterrestrial Sample Analysis Facilities report (Recording) | Roberta Rudnick |
| 10:20 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:35 a.m. | Dawn update (Recording) | Carol Raymond |
| 10:50 a.m. | Workshop on Autonomy for future NASA Science Missions (Recording) | Tim Swindle |
| 11:05 a.m. | MILO Institute (Recording) | Jim Bell |
| 11:20 a.m. | Apophis exploration (Recording) | Rick Binzel |
| 11:35 a.m. | Lucy update (Recording) | Simone Marchi |
| 11:50 a.m. | NEOCam update (Recording) | Amy Mainzer |
| 12:00. | LINCH | |
| 1:30 p.m. | SBAG and the Decadal Survey | |
| 2:15 p.m. | Interstellar Probe (Recording) | Kathy Mandt |
| 2:30 p.m. | Discussion of SBAG Steering Committee Selection (Recording) | Christine Hartzell |
| 2:45 p.m. | DART update (Recording) | Elena Adams |
| 3:00 p.m. | NEOWISE update (Recording) | Joe Masiero |
| 3:15 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Psyche update (Recording) | Carol Polanskey |
| 4:15 p.m. | MMX (Recording) | Tomoki Nakamura |
| 4:30 p.m. | Open microphone (Recording) | |
| 5:00 p.m. | End of day/Steering Committee meeting | |
| Thursday, January 31 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Q&A (Recording) | Lindley Johnson |
| 9:00 a.m. | SBAG Goals (Recording) | Tim Swindle |
| 9:10 a.m. | Goals – Diversity and Workforce (Recording) | Carolyn Ernst |
| 9:30 a.m. | Goals – ISRU (Recording) | Dan Britt |
| 9:50 a.m. | Goals – Science (Recording) | Andy Rivkin |
| 10:10 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:25 a.m. | Goals – Planetary Defense (Recording) | Paul Chodas |
| 10:45 a.m. | Goals – Human Exploration (Recording) | Dan Adamo |
| 11:05 a.m. | Technology related to Goals (Recording) | Carolyn Mercer |
| 11:25 a.m. | Findings and last remarks (Recording) | |
| 12:00 | Meeting adjourns | |