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Short Course: Exploring in the Interstellar Medium

Monday, September 8th, 2014

8:15 A.M. Coffee
8:45 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Short Course
Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill Building - California Institute of Technology


Speakers:


  • Prof. Ed Stone - Caltech Campus
  • Prof. Freeman Dyson - IAS, Princeton
  • Prof. Mike Brown - Caltech Campus
  • Dr. Slava Turyshev - JPL/Caltech
  • Dr. Ralph McNutt - APL/ Johns Hopkins University

Abstract:


The flight of Voyager 1 has led to new discoveries and new questions about the Interstellar Medium and its heliopause boundary with the solar wind. New Kuiper Belt Objects have been discovered and are important targets for exploration.

What will be the future follow-ons to NASA’s current missions - Voyager and New Horizons?







Short Course Presentations

Freeman Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study

Missions Beyond Pluto
(280 KB .pdf)

Mike Brown
Caltech

Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud
(1.5 MB .pdf)

Slava Turyshev
JPL/Caltech

The Solar Gravity Lens Focus
(9.4 MB .pdf)

Ralph McNutt
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Previous ISM Mission Studies
(15 MB .pdf)

Nathan Strange
JPL/Caltech

How Fast, How Far
(1.6 MB .pdf)

Les Johnson
NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

Propulsion Candidates
(5.2 MB .pdf)




Workshop

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