PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER
Volume 2, Number 36 (July 27, 2008)

PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org
Editor: Nic Richmond
Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Matt Balme
Email: pen_editor at psi.edu

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1. [NASA] NSPIRES Unavailable
2. Fall AGU Session: Recent Advances in Planetary Volcanology
3. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions

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[NASA] NSPIRES UNAVAILABLE

NSPIRES is unavailable as of Friday July 25, and may not be 
available until next week. Four ROSES-08 program elements have 
proposal due dates within the next week. The due dates for all four 
will be deferred. Due dates for any Notices of Intent (NOIs) to 
propose that are due next week will also be deferred.

The deferral will be at least the number of days that NSPIRES is 
unavailable, and proposals will be due no earlier than two days 
after NSPIRES is available again. The program elements that will be 
deferred are: 

B.9 SDO Science Center (scheduled to be due Friday July 25)
A.27 SMAP SDT (scheduled to be due Tuesday July 29)
A.21 ACT (scheduled to be due Wednesday July 30)
A.26 ICESat II SDT (scheduled to be due Wednesday July 30)

When new due dates are set, an NSPIRES email announcement will be 
sent to the community and the new due dates will be posted on 
NSPIRES.


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FALL AGU SESSION: RECENT ADVANCES IN PLANETARY VOLCANOLOGY

Dear Colleagues,

We are soliciting abstracts for the following session that will be
held at the 2008 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, December 14-19:

Recent Advances in Planetary Volcanology

Cosponsors:  Planetary Sciences, Volcanology, Geochemistry, and 
Petrology (VGP)

Conveners:  Laszlo Keszthelyi (USGS Astrogeology Team) and David
Williams (ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration)

Description: Ongoing space missions have recently returned data on
volcanism ranging from sun-baked Mercury to hyperactive Io.
Volcanoes small and large are being scrutinized by an armada of 
Mars spacecraft even as a new wave of lunar exploration begins,
and Cassini continues to identify evidence of cryovolcanism on 
Saturn's moons.  This session provides a venue for the sharing of 
recent discoveries and comparison of volcanism across the Solar 
System.

Abstract Submission Deadline:  September 10, 2008

Cheers,
Dave Williams and Laszlo Keszthelyi


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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS

Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html

September 15-18, 2008
Optical Turbulence: Astronomy Meets Meteorology
http://forot.arcetri.astro.it/otam-08/index.html
Alghero, Italy

September 22-26, 2008
Searching for Life Signatures
http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific%20Activity/setiparis2008.pdf
Paris, France

September 23-24, 2008
Small Bodies Assessment Group - Inaugural Meeting
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/
Houston, TX

November 10-14, 2008
IHY/AGU Chapman Conference on Universal Heliophysical Processes
http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2008/gcall/
Savannah, GA

April 2-4, 2009
Conference on Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Luminescence Studies 
in the Earth and Planetary Sciences (Spectroscopy 2009)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/spectroscopy2009/
Mainz, Germany

April 27-30, 2009
1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from 
Asteroids
http://www.congrex.nl/09c04/
Granada, Spain

September 20-23, 2009
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy in the Inner and Outer Solar 
System
http://europlanet.cesr.fr/pages/evt/
docs/Calendar_September20-23_2008_IAS.pdf
Alghero, Italy

October 18-21, 2009
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009/index.htm
Portland, OR

[Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or
workshop that you think your colleagues should be aware of, please
send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor at psi.edu.]


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