Dear all,

The December RAS Discussion Meeting is on the subject of
cosmic dust, including "anthropogenic" dust, which is
part of the "space debris" problem for Earth-orbiting
satellites, so I thought this meeting might be of some
interest to members of this list.

Incidentally, if you want to run a meeting on your own geophysical
subject with more-or-less this timetable on the second
Friday of a month in 2016-17 please get in touch with
the BGA (send me an email in the first instance) because
the RAS will give financial support.

Sheila Peacock,
list co-owner.


Friday, 11 December 2015
Royal Astronomical Society Lecture Theatre
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
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Extraterrestrial dust particles preserve details of the interplanetary (asteroids, comet,
planets and planetary satellites) and interstellar bodies from which they originate, and
can ultimately provide insights into the origin and evolution of our Solar System. As
we continue to explore and populate our Solar System with spacecraft, this dust, as
well as dust generated by human activities, is also becoming an increasing concern,
prompting efforts to monitor levels and investigate and mitigate the hazards they
pose. This meeting aims to bring together researchers involved in the study of natural
and anthropogenic cosmic dust, including those studying data from observatories
and space missions, analysing mission returned samples and cosmic dust collected
here on Earth, as well as those performing relevant modelling and experiments.

Penelope Wozniakiewicz (University of Kent), Mark Price (University of Kent), Matt
Genge (Imperial College London) and Mark Burchell (University of Kent)

MEETING SCHEDULE - Friday 11th December 2015

10.00 – 10.25 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

10.25 – 13.00 MORNING SESSION
10.25 – 10.30 Welcome
10.30 – 11.00 INVITED SPEAKER: Michael Zolensky (NASA Johnson Space Centre)
Seeing interplanetary dust with new eyes: A dividend from the Stardust Mission
11.00 – 11.15 John Bridges (University of Leicester)
Magnetite in Stardust Terminal Grains: Hydrous Alteration of the Wild2 Parent Body
11.15 – 11.30 Penelope Wozniakiewicz (University of Kent)
New atmospheric micrometeorite collections at the Earth’s surface
11.30 – 11.45 Matt Genge (Imperial College London)
The Nature of Antarctic Micrometeorites: A New Collection from Larkman Nunatak
11.45 – 12.00 Matthias van Ginneken (Imperial College London)
The Parent Bodies of Large Micrometeorites: an Oxygen Isotopes Approach
12.00 – 12.15 Ian Franchi (Open University)
Exploring The Outer Regions of the Protoplanetary Disk with IDPs
12.15 – 12.30 Martin Suttle (Imperial College London)
Characterisation of Carbonaceous Phases within FgMMs, fingerprinting the hydrated
dust signature.
12.30 – 12.45 Mark Burchell (University of Kent)
Synthetic Mimics for Cosmic Dust and Micrometeorites
12.45 – 13.00 Anton Kearsley (University of Kent/Natural History Museum)
How to determine the origin of dust impacted on spacecraft in low Earth orbit

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

Apostolos "Tolis" Christou (Armagh Observatory)
A model of the lunar dust cloud
Bridie Davies (Imperial College London)
Iron (I-Type) Spherules from Larkman Nunatak, Antarctica
Anton Kearsley (University of Kent/Natural History Museum)
Determining the origin of dust encountered in low Earth orbit (LEO): a case study from the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST).
James New (University of Kent)
Orbital Debris Intelligence Node Calibration of 0.2 mm – 2 mm Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris
Jamie Wickham-Eade (University of Kent)
Can micrometeorites survive impact on the Moon or Vesta? Fragmentation of Basalt Projectiles in
Hypervelocity Impacts in the Laboratory

14.00 – 15.30 AFTERNOON SESSION

14.00 – 14.15 Andrew Morse (Open University)
Ptolemy measurements of the surface dust of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
14.15 – 14.30 Mark Jones (Open University)
Mapping the circumsolar dust ring near the orbit of Venus
14.30 – 14.45 Dave Clements (Imperial College London)
SPICA: Probing Dust from the Epoch of Reionisation to the Solar System
14.45 – 15.00 Jonathan Smoker (Very Large Telescope, European Southern Observatory)
A high resolution mini-survey of near-infrared Diffuse Interstellar Bands and search
for their small and time-variable structure
15.00 – 15.15 Peter Sarre (University of Nottingham)
PAHs in interstellar space
15.15 – 15.30 Melanie Köhler (Queen Mary University of London)
Self-consistent modelling of dust evolution due to accretion and coagulation in the ISM