13th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
June 29–July 1, 2015
Washington DC
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Agenda and Presentations
| Monday, June 29, 2015 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome & Logistics | |
| 9:10 a.m. | Review and discussion of SBAG 12 findings | Lindley Johnson |
| 9:40 a.m. | Planetary Science Division Update | Jim Green |
| 10:30 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:40 a.m. | Discussion of SBAG future within NASA structure | Jim Green |
| 11:10 p.m. | SBAG Goals Document and Technology Roadmap: Overview and Progress | |
| Overview | Nancy Chabot | |
| Science | Tim Swindle | |
| Planetary Defense | Tommy Grav | |
| Human Exploration | Paul Abell | |
| Technology Roadmap | John Dankanich | |
| 12:00 p.m. | LUNCH | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM): (~25 min presentations, followed each by discussion) | |
| Mission concept overview | Michelle Gates | |
| Boulder capture approach | Bo Naasz, Ben Cichy | |
| 3:00–3:15 p.m. | BREAK | |
| EVA and sampling activities | Steve Stich Paul Abell |
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| Dan Mazanek Paul Abell |
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| 4:40 p.m. | Analysis of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Impacts |
Jim Arnold |
| 5:00 p.m. | Closing discussion of the day | |
| 5:15–7:00 p.m. | Meeting of the SBAG Steering Committee | |
| Tuesday, June 30, 2015 | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and logistics | |
| 9:05 a.m. | Mission Briefs - Updates and Recent Highlights | |
| 9:05 a.m. NEOWISE | Roc Cutri | |
| 9:25 a.m. OSIRIS-REx | Dante Lauretta | |
| 9:45 a.m. Hayabusa 2 | Makoto Yoshikawa | |
| 10:00 a.m. Procyon | Ryu Funase | |
| 10:15–10:30 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:30 a.m. New Horizons | Alan Stern | |
| 11:00 a.m. Dawn | Carol Raymond | |
| 11:30 a.m. Rosetta | Lori Feaga | |
| 11:50 a.m. | SBAG Early Career Travel Recipients Lighting Talks | |
| Cometary Dust in NEOWISE | Emily Kraemer | |
| 3D Mantle Convection on Ceres | Pavithra Sekhar | |
| 12:00 p.m. | LUNCH | |
| 12:15–1:15 p.m. | Public panel discussion: finding, Tracking, and Characterizing Near-Earth Objects and Planning for Planetary Defense | |
| 1:30 p.m.
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Proposed Discovery Mission Concepts (Presentations from additional small-body-related Discovery proposal teams are welcome; e-mail Nancy Chabot) | |
| 1:30 p.m. | BASiX, PI: Dan Scheeres | |
| 1:40 p.m. | MERLIN, PI: Scott Murchie | |
| 1:50 p.m. | Psyche, PI: Lindy Elkins-Tanton | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Comet Radar Explorer, PI: Erik Asphaug | |
| 2:10 p.m. | MANTIS, PI: Andy Rivkin | |
| 2:20 p.m. | Proteus, PI: Karen Meech | |
| 2:30 p.m. | Pandora, PI: Carol Raymond | |
| 2:40 p.m. | Lucy, PI: Hal Levison | |
| 2:50 p.m. | NEOCam, PI: Amy Mainzer | |
| 3:00 p.m. | CHagall, PI: Jessica Sunshine | |
| 3:10 p.m. | Kuiper, PI: Jim Bell | |
| 3:20 p.m. | PADME, PI: Anthony Colaprete | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Whipple, PI: Charles Alcock | |
| 3:40 p.m. | AJAX, PI: Jack Mustard | |
| 3:50 p.m. | Prime, PI: Hunter Waite | |
| 4:00 p.m. | DARe, PI: Keith Noll | |
| 4:10–4:20 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 4:20 p.m. | NEO Program status and activities | Lindley Johnson |
| 5:10 p.m. | International Asteroid Warning Network and Space Mission Planning Advisory Group |
Rob Landis |
| 5:30 p.m. | Closing discussion of the day | |
| Wednesday, July 1, 2015 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and logistics | |
| 8:35 a.m. | Spitzer Opportunities for Small Bodies Science | Mike Werner |
| 9:00 a.m. | Worthy Destinations for Pioneering in Space | Dan Adamo |
| 9:30 a.m. | HEOMD’s Small Bodies Activities: SKGs & the Global Exploration Roadmap White Paper | Ben Bussey |
| 10:30 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:40 a.m. | PSD Research & Analysis Program Status | Jonathan Rall |
| 11:40 a.m. | SBAG Goals Document and Technology Roadmap: Follow-up Discussions and Plan Forward | |
| Science | Tim Swindle | |
| Planetary Defense | Tommy Grav | |
| Human Exploration | Paul Abell | |
| Technology Roadmap | John Dankanich | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Closing discussion of the day | |
| 12:30 p.m.– 1:30 p.m. | Meeting of the SBAG Steering Committee | |