[meteorite-list] Lecture: Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 10:11:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201205011711.q41HB3uo018746_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/primitive-bodies2012/lecture.html

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE co-sponsored by The Planetary Society

Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond, JPL/Caltech

8:00 pm - Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill Building
California Institute of Technology
1216 California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125

The Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in
the main belt, in July of 2011, and has since returned a wealth of
remarkable scientific findings. These have included the confirmation of
Vesta as the parent body of a common class of meteorites (the
Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenites), evidence for a substantial iron core, an
impact record consistent with recent dynamical models driven by giant
planet migration, and intriguing brightness and compositional
variations. Vesta's nature is transitional between an asteroid and a
planet, and represents one of the oldest intact planetary building
blocks from the beginning of the solar system. Dawn's novel
ion-propulsion system allows the spacecraft to travel further and orbit
the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.

About the Speaker

Carol A. Raymond is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA Dawn
Mission, and the Program Scientist for Mission Formulation within the
Solar System Exploration Directorate at JPL. She migrated to planetary
science from a background in terrestrial geophysics. Her research aims
to understand geodynamic processes of Earth and other planetary bodies,
including plate tectonics and glacial isostatic adjustment on the Earth,
magnetic field history of Earth and Mars, and the formation and
evolution of protoplanets. She has led numerous deep-sea and Antarctic
field expeditions but currently devotes most of her time to robotic
exploration of space.

No registration is required for this free lecture.
Seating is limited and is available on a first come, first served basis.
Parking is free after 6pm.

For questions contact: John Eiler <eiler at gps.caltech.edu>,
Jordana Blacksberg <Jordana.blacksberg at jpl.nasa.gov>, John
Dankanich <john.dankanich at nasa.gov> or Michele Judd
<mjudd at kiss.caltech.edu>
Received on Tue 01 May 2012 01:11:03 PM PDT