Rock, Dust and Ice: Interpreting planetary data
Event date
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Location
Online
Event Type
Workshop

8am-11:30am, Pacific Time

How can we leverage multi-wavelength observations, radiative transfer theory and laboratory work to characterize planetary solids? This 4-day virtual workshop will bring together observers, modelers and laboratory astronomers to discuss the interpretation of observations of rocks, ices and dust on and around Solar System objects. A large variety of complementary observational techniques will be featured, via invited and contributed presentations, as well as different methods to constrain solids’ fundamental properties such as composition, porosity, thermal inertia and grain size distribution. The workshop is organized by the SOFIA Science Center, and a special emphasis will be put on mid- and far-IR data. Each daily 3.5-hour session will include ample time for moderated interdisciplinary discussions. The fourth day will be dedicated to a moderated discussion on databases, archives and public codes.

Invited Speakers

I. Belskaya (Kharkiv National University)
D. Cruikshank (NASA Ames)
J. Emery (NAU)
P. Gerakines (NASA Goddard)
B. Gundlach (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
M. Lane (Fibernetics LLC)
A. Maturilli (DLR/IFP)
S. Protopapa (SWRI)
E. Sciamma O'Brien (NASA Ames)
C. Woodward (U. Minnesota)
M. Poston (SWRI)

Science Organization Committee

Arielle Moullet (SOFIA/USRA)
Bobby Bus (IRTF)
Thomas Mueller (MPE, Munich)
Edith Fayolle (JPL)
Amanda Hendrix (PSI)
Maggie MacAdam (NASA Ames)
B-G Andersson (SOFIA/USRA)
Jim Jackson (SOFIA/USRA)