17th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group
June 12–14, 2017
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
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NOTE: All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time
Agenda and Presentations
| Monday, June 12 | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome | |
| 1:10 p.m. | Planetary Science Division overview (Video) | Jim Green |
| 2:00 p.m. | Responses to SBAG 16 findings (Video) | Lindley Johnson |
| 2:30 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:00 p.m. | New Horizons | Alan Stern |
| 3:15 p.m. | JWST call for proposals (Video) | Stephanie Milam |
| 3:20 p.m. | WFIRST Solar System Working Group (Video) | Stephanie Milam |
| 3:25 p.m. | NASA R&A (Video) | Tom Statler |
| 3:55 p.m. | Early career talk, “Dust behavior in microgravity: learning about small body interiors and surfaces” (Video) | Julie Brisset |
| 4:25 p.m. | Lightning talks (3 minutes each) by early career attendees – names will be posted to the SBAG website after the talks (Video) | |
| 4:55 p.m. | Open Microphone (Video) | |
| 5:30 p.m. | End of day | |
| Tuesday, June 13, 2017 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Destiny + - (Video) | Tomoko Arai |
| 8:45 a.m. | Hayabusa-2 (Video) | |
| 9:00 a.m. | OSIRIS-REx (Video) | Lucy Lim |
| 9:15 a.m. | NEOWISE (Video) | James Bauer |
| 9:30 a.m. | NRC study on extended missions (Video) | Victoria Hamilton |
| 10:00 a.m. | Participating Scientist Program committee report (Video) |
Lori Feaga |
| 10:15 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:45 a.m. | ARM (Video) | Michelle Gates |
| 11:00 a.m. | Dawn Mission (Video) | Carol Raymond |
| 11:15 a.m. | Small Bodies and the Roadmap to Ocean Worlds | |
| 11:15 TNOs (Video) 11:25 Ceres (Video) |
Bonnie Burratti Julie Castillo-Rogez |
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| 11:35 a.m. | Diversity in planetary missions (Video) | Janet Vertesi |
| 12:05 p.m. | LUNCH | |
| 1:45 p.m. | Asteroid mining | |
| 1:45 Deep Space Industries (Video) 2:00 Planetary Resources (Video) |
David Gump Chris Lewicki |
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| 2:15 p.m. | Hermes regolith experiment opportunities (Video) | Marc Fries |
| 2:30 p.m. | PSDS3 selections (Video) | Carolyn Mercer |
| 2:45 p.m. | Decadal Survey (Video) | Tim Swindle |
| 3:10 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:40 p.m. | Common themes in small bodies missions (Video) | Lindley Johnson |
| 3:55 p.m. | ANSMET (Video) | Ralph Harvey |
| 4:10 p.m. | Open microphone (Video) | |
| 5:00 p.m. | End of day | |
| Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | NEOO program (Video) | Kelly Fast |
| 8:45 a.m. | Planetary Defense Coordination Office (Video) | Lindley Johnson |
| 9:00 a.m. | Planetary Defense Conference in Tokyo | |
| 9:00 General conference (Video) 9:15 Scenario (Video) |
Brent Barbee Paul Chodas |
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| 9:30 a.m. | NASA Ames ATAP (Video) | Donovan Mathias |
| 9:50 a.m. | LSST Study (Video) | |
| 9:50 LSST Discovery Potential for Solar System Science and Planetary Defense 10:00 LSST's Projected NEO Discovery Performance |
Zeljko Ivezic Steve Chesley |
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| 10:20 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:35 a.m. | NEO Science Definition Team (Video) | Grant Stokes |
| 11:05 a.m. | Discussion of Steering Committee meeting, new members, findings (Video) |
Tim Swindle |
| 12:00 | End of day | |