All interested researchers and students are invited to attend. No registration is required for the short course. Seating is limited and is available on a first come, first served basis.
Program
Talk 1 – “Past Sample Return Missions and Major Achievements” – Michael Zolensky, NASA Johnson Space Center
- Major unanswered science questions from sample return missions
- Advances in analytical capabilities
- Lessons learned from sample return missions
Talk 2 – “Linking the Protosolar Disk with the Inner Solar System” – Francois Tissot, Caltech
- Nucleosynthetic anomalies: robust tracers of early solar system evolution
- Current views on early solar system architecture
- Missing building blocks of terrestrial planets (i.e., the biased metoerite record)
- The need for inner solar system return sample missions (Venus/Mercury)
Talk 3 – “Chemical Fingerprints of the early Solar System and its Dynamical Evolution” – Karen Meech, University of Hawai’i
- Habitability for terrestrial planets – bringing water to the inner solar system
- Chemistry and isotopic signatures vary with temperature in the disk
- Planetesimals formation and scattering by giant planets
- Unwinding the clock – perils of using one isotope to trace the history
- Where to look: Clues from meteorites – the NC/CC dichotomy
- Testing the dynamics with Manx comets
- Value of sample return to assess volatiles in the asteroid belt
Talk 4 – “Ocean Worlds and Habitability” – Jonathan Lunine, JPL
- The criteria for habitability, and which ones are particular to ocean worlds
- The key types of measurements required to establish habitability
- Results obtained at Enceladus by Cassini
- Planned Europa Clipper observations directly relevant to the habitability of Europa
- The value of sample return for assessing the habitability of these objects
Talk 5 – “Ices in the Outer Solar System and their Connection to the Protoplanetary Disk” – Mike Brown, Caltech
- The JWST view of the icy composition of the outer solar system
- The incorporation of interstellar ices into the protoplanetary disk
- Isotopic signatures of the interstellar-protoplanetary-outer solar system connection and planetary processes
- Samples from the outer solar system and where to find them
Short Course Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Zolensky | NASA Johnson Space Center | Past Sample Return Missions and Major Achievements (.pdf) |
| Francois Tissot | Caltech | Linking the Protosolar Disk with the Inner Solar System (.pdf) |
| Karen Meech | University of Hawai'i | Chemical Fingerprints of the early Solar System and its Dynamical Evolution (.pdf) |
| Jonathan Lunine | JPL | Ocean Worlds and Habitability (.pdf) |
| Mike Brown | Caltech | Ices in the Outer Solar System and their Connection to the Protoplanetary Disk (.pdf) |
