Wednesday DPS 56 Press Conference AAS Press Office 2024-10-10 | Virtual News Briefing from #DPS2024, held in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, 9 October 2024IntroductionTeddy Kareta (DPS Press Officer)Oscillations within Jupiter’s Great Red SpotAmy Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)The Uranian Moon Ariel, a Carbon Dioxide Wonderland Observed by JWSTRichard Cartwright (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)Investigating the Stability of Trojan and Horseshoe Co-Orbitals in Extrasolar Multi-Planet SystemsMariah C. Jones (Vassar College / SETI Institute)Q&A
Monday DPS 56 Press Conference AAS Press Office 2024-10-08 | Virtual News Briefing from #DPS2024, held in Boise, Idaho, on Monday, 7 October 2024IntroductionTeddy Kareta (DPS Press Officer)In Search of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids in the Taurid Resonant SwarmQuanzhi Ye (University of Maryland / Boston University)Quantifying Asteroid Impact Energy: Implications for Planetary DefenseElizabeth A. Silber (Sandia National Laboratories)The Role of Radioactive Isotopes in the Formation and Evolution of Terrestrial PlanetsVictor Oyiboka (University of Texas at Dallas)Q&A
AAS 244 Press Conference: Citizen Science from the 2023/2024 Solar Eclipses AAS Press Office 2024-06-13 | Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 2:15 pm CSTCitizen Science from the 2023/2024 Solar EclipsesWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)Citizen CATE 2024: Extending Eclipse Totality with a Community-Participant Distributed Observing NetworkAmir Caspi (Southwest Research Institute)Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project: Science from the Edge of SpaceAngela Des Jardins (Montana State University)The LightSound Project: Experiencing Solar Eclipses Through SoundDawn Davies (Hill Country Alliance)Capturing the Awe and Wonder of Solar Eclipses Through Changes in Our Brainwaves: Piloting Project AWEKate Russo (Being in the Shadow)
AAS 244 Press Conference: More Stars and Distant Worlds AAS Press Office 2024-06-13 | Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:15 am CSTMore Stars and Distant WorldsWelcomeKerry Hensley (AAS)Twin Jets and Twin Disks: JWST and ALMA Discoveries in a Young Multiple SystemMary BarsonyX-ray Emission of Nearby Low-Mass and Sun-Like Stars with Directly Imageable Habitable ZonesBreanna Binder (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)First Observations of Brown Dwarfs in Globular Clusters with JWSTRoman Gerasimov (University of Notre Dame)The Fate of Oceans: Survival of Oceans on Habitable Planets Orbiting White DwarfsJuliette Becker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
AAS 244 Press Conference: Massive Black Holes and Surprising Spirals AAS Press Office 2024-06-12 | Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 2:15 pm CDTMassive Black Holes and Surprising SpiralsWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)Cosmic Black-Hole Growth Tracked by Combining X-ray Surveys and Supercomputer SimulationsFan Zou (Penn State University)Discovery of an Accelerating Quasar Wind with the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyRobert Wheatley and Catherine Grier (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Massive Black Holes in Low-Mass Galaxies: What Happened to the X-ray Corona?Riccardo Arcodia (MIT)JWST Reveals a Surprisingly High Fraction of Galaxies Being Spiral-Like in the Early UniverseVicki Kuhn (University of Missouri Columbia)
AAS 244 Press Conference: From the Galactic Center to the Galactic Disk AAS Press Office 2024-06-12 | Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 10:15 am CSTFrom the Galactic Center to the Galactic DiskWelcomeBen Cassese (AAS)Nine Sagittarius A* X-ray Flares Detected by NuSTAR Between 2016-2024Grace Sanger-Johnson (Michigan State University)Galactic Center Molecular Cloud "Bridge" Reaching Peak X-ray Luminosity After 20 Years of BrighteningJack Uteg (Michigan State University)The Galactic Center Magnetic Field Distribution Using the FIREPLACE SurveyDylan Paré (Villanova University)Magnetic Field in an Unusually Active Star-Forming Region in the Galactic CenterJianhan (Roy) Zhao (UC Los Angeles)Dust-Free Clouds in the Galactic Disk?Anthony Minter (Green Bank Observatory)
AAS 244 Press Conference: Stars and Their Antics AAS Press Office 2024-06-11 | Monday, 10 June 2024, 2:15 pm CSTStars and Their AnticsA Hypervelocity Subdwarf Passing Through the Solar NeighborhoodAdam Burgasser (UCSD)Evidence of a Multi-Component Eccentric Disk Induced by a Planet Around CI TauJanus Kozdon (Clemson University)The Long-Term Post-Explosion Evolution of a Symbiotic NovaRavi Sankrit (Space Telescope Science Institute)Uncovering Three Past Massive Star-Forming Complexes that Shaped Local Interstellar StructuresCameren Swiggum (University of Vienna)JWST as a Supernova Discovery Machine: Catching ~40 New Explosions in the JADES Deep Field Each YearChrista DeCoursey (University of Arizona) and Justin Pierel (Space Telescope Science Institute)
AAS 244 Press Conference: Disks, Atmospheres, and Astronomy from the Moon AAS Press Office 2024-06-11 | Monday, 10 June 2024, 10:15 am CTDisks, Atmospheres, and Astronomy from the MoonWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)Should I Stay or Should I Go: What Governs Circumstellar Disk LifetimesLisa Prato (Lowell Observatory)The Spectroscopic Case for a Recent Giant Collision Around Beta PicChristine Chen (Johns Hopkins University / Space Telescope Science Institute)JWST Observations of a Feature-Rich Sub-Neptune AtmosphereThomas Beatty (University of Wisconsin-Madison)The Dawn of Radio Astronomy from the Moon: ROLSES on Intuitive Machines' Odysseus LanderJack Burns (University of Colorado Boulder)
AAS 243 Press Conference: Oddities in the Sky AAS Press Office 2024-01-12 | Thursday, 11 January 2024, 2:15 pm CSTOddities in the SkyWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)A Big Ring on the SkyAlexia Lopez (Jeremiah Horrocks Institute - University of Central Lancashire)A Potentially Isolated Quiescent Dwarf GalaxyTimothy Carleton (Arizona State University)Close Encounters of the Supermassive Black Hole Kind: Tidal Disruption Events and What They Can Reveal About Black Holes and Stars in Distant GalaxiesAnanya Bandopadhyay (Syracuse University)Zooniverse People-Powered Research Platform Reaches New MilestonesLaura Trouille (The Adler Planetarium; Zooniverse)
AAS 243 Press Conference: High-Energy Universe AAS Press Office 2024-01-12 | Thursday, 11 January 2024, 10:15 am CSTHigh-Energy UniverseWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)Evidence of a Relic Active Galactic Nucleus EruptionKimberly Weaver (NASA Goddard SFC)Unveiling the Most Promising Formation Channel of Fast Radio Bursts Using Local Universe BurstsMohit Bhardwaj (Carnegie Mellon University) and Aaron Pearlman (McGill University)Evidence for Large-Scale Anisotropy in the Gamma-ray SkyAlexander Kashlinsky (NASA Goddard SFC)Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of YearsMichael Calzadilla (MIT)
AAS 243 Press Conference: Stars, Disks & Exoplanets AAS Press Office 2024-01-11 | Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 2:15 pm CSTStars, Disks & ExoplanetsWelcomeBen Cassese (AAS / Columbia University)Stellar Paternity Tests: Matching High-Latitude B Stars to the Open Clusters of Their BirthBrandon Schweers and Ginny McSwain (Lehigh University)Weakened Magnetic Braking in the Exoplanet Host Star 51 PegasiTravis Metcalfe (White Dwarf Research Corporation)JWST's New View of Beta Pictoris Suggests Recent Episodic Dust Production from an Eccentric, Inclined Secondary Debris DiskChristopher Stark (NASA Goddard)How Do Ultra-Massive Planets Form? Gaining New Insight by Measuring the Orbital Tilt of a Rare Transiting Brown DwarfSteven Giacalone (Caltech)An Earth-Sized Addition to a 400-Myr Planetary System in the Ursa Major Moving GroupAlyssa Jankowski and Melinda Soares-Furtado (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
AAS 243 Press Conference: Supernovae and Stars AAS Press Office 2024-01-11 | Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 10:15 am CSTSupernovae and StarsWelcomeKerry Hensley (AAS)A 12.4-Day Periodicity in a Close Binary System After a SupernovaPing Chen (Weizmann Institute of Science)Rare Insight Into the Origins of Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors From a Double DetonationEstefania Padilla Gonzalez (UC Santa Barbara and Las Cumbres Observatory)Periodic Eruptions of a Supernova ImpostorMojgan Aghakhanloo (University of Virginia)Spectacular Nucleosynthesis from Early Massive StarsAlexander Ji (University of Chicago)A New Census of Neutral Clouds in the Milky Way's Nuclear WindJay Lockman (Green Bank Observatory)
AAS 243 Press Conference: High-Energy Phenomena and Their Origins AAS Press Office 2024-01-10 | Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 2:15 pm CSTHigh-Energy Phenomena and Their OriginsWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)Revealing Dual Quasars and Their Host Galaxy With JWST and ALMAYuzo Ishikawa (Johns Hopkins University)Breaking Cosmic Scales: JWST's Discovery of Unexpectedly Massive Black HolesFabio Pacucci (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)Revealing the Environment of the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst with the Hubble Space TelescopeAlexa Gordon (Northwestern University)Burst Chaser: Unveiling the Mysterious Origin of Gamma-ray Bursts with Citizen ScienceAmy Lien (University of Tampa)Seeing Our Sun Through a New Lens: The First Large Catalog of Hot Thermal Solar FlaresAravind Valluvan (University of California, San Diego)
AAS 243 Press Conference: Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs AAS Press Office 2024-01-10 | Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 10:15 am CSTExoplanets and Brown DwarfsWelcomeBenjamin Cassese (AAS/Columbia University)Extrasolar Worlds Exhibit Exotic Sandy Clouds at the EquatorGenaro Suarez (American Museum of Natural History)Using Citizen Science to Identify New Ultracool Benchmark SystemsAustin Rothermich (CUNY Graduate Center)JWST Indicates Auroral Signature in an Extremely Cold Brown DwarfJackie Faherty (American Museum of Natural History)WASP-69b's Escaping Atmosphere Is Confined to a Tail at Least 7 Planet RadiiDakotah Tyler (University of California, Los Angeles)
AAS 243 Press Conference: Stars, Protostars & More Clouds AAS Press Office 2024-01-09 | Monday, 8 January 2024, 2:15 pm CSTStars, Protostars & More CloudsWelcomeKerry Hensley (AAS)Asymmetric Gamma-Ray Emission from the Quiet SunElena Orlando (University of Trieste and Stanford University)A Colossal Star Erupts: Examining One of the Largest Stars in the Milky Way As It Fades From ViewNarsireddy Anugu (CHARA Array; Georgia State University)Early Evolution of Planetary Disk Structures Seen for the First TimeCheng-Han Hsieh (Yale University)The Wondrous 3D World of Protostellar Shocks in NGC 2071Nicole Karnath (Space Science Institute)
AAS 243 Press Conference: Dust, Clouds & Darkness AAS Press Office 2024-01-09 | Monday, 8 January 2024, 10:15 am CSTDust, Clouds & DarknessWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)A Polarized Dust Ring in the Milky Way's CenterNatalie Butterfield (NRAO)NASA Telescopes Show Famous Exploded Star in Its Best LightDan Milisavljevic (Purdue University)Mystery of Star Formation Revealed by Hearts of Molecular Clouds Jin Koda (Stony Brook University) & Amanda Lee (U. Mass. Amherst)The Dark Galaxy J0613+52Karen O'Neil (Green Bank Observatory)The Origin of Odd Radio CirclesAlison Coil (University of California, San Diego)
DPS–EPSC 2023 Wednesday Press Conference AAS Press Office 2023-10-05 | Virtual News Briefing from #DPSEPSC2023, held in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday, 4 October 2023IntroductionTeddy Kareta (DPS Press Officer)Cold Ocean Planets: Super-Earths or Super-Europas?Lynnae Quick (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)Unraveling Planet Formation and Dynamics across the Vast Galactic LandscapeJon Zink (Caltech)Ménec Fossae and Thrace Macula on Europa: Hints for Shallow Water Pockets and Identification of the Youngest TerrainsPietro Matteoni (Freie Universität Berlin)Ariel Data Challenge: What Can We Learn From Outsourcing Our Problems to the AI CommunityGordon Kai Hou Yip (University College London)Q&A
DPS–EPSC 2023 Monday Press Conference AAS Press Office 2023-10-03 | Virtual News Briefing from #DPSEPSC2023, held in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, 2 October 2023IntroductionTeddy Kareta (DPS Press Officer)Evidence of (16) Psyche’s Metallic Nature Found with SOFIAAnicia Arredondo (Southwest Research Institute)Photometric Properties of Phobos from Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo CameraSonia Fornasier (LESIA-Université Paris Cité)Does Strength Help Pluto Capture Charon?C. Adeene Denton (University of Arizona)Q&A
AAS 242 Seminar for Science Writers: Get Ready for the North American Solar Eclipses AAS Press Office 2023-06-08 | Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 10:15 am MDTGet Ready for the North American Solar EclipsesThe Great American Solar Eclipse Double-HeaderAngela Speck (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, and AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force)Where to Go for the Best Views, and How to Watch SafelyRick Fienberg (AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force)Albuquerque Prepares for Its Day in the SunJayne Aubele (New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science)From the Corona to the Heliosphere: Solar Eclipse Science & NASA’s PUNCH MissionCraig DeForest (Southwest Research Institute; NASA’s PUNCH Mission)Ancient & Modern Sun-Watching in New Mexico and BeyondCherilynn Morrow (Southwest Research Institute; NASA’s PUNCH Mission)
AAS 242 Press Conference: Hot Jupiters and Hungry Black Holes AAS Press Office 2023-06-07 | Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 10:15 am MDTResolving Stars and Hunting Nearby GalaxiesRare Signals from Stars in the Triangulum GalaxyOlivia Gaunt (Tufts University)Star Formation Triggered by an Expanding Bubble in the Nessie NebulaJim Jackson (Green Bank Observatory)X-ray Observations of a Group of Galaxies Falling into the Coma ClusterStephen Walker (University of Alabama in Huntsville)Hunting for Low-Redshift Hot DOGsChao-Wei Tsai (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
AAS 242 Press Conference: Resolving Stars and Hunting Nearby Galaxies AAS Press Office 2023-06-07 | Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 10:15 am MDTResolving Stars and Hunting Nearby GalaxiesWelcomeKerry Hensley (AAS)Rare Signals from Stars in the Triangulum GalaxyOlivia Gaunt (Tufts University)Star Formation Triggered by an Expanding Bubble in the Nessie NebulaJim Jackson (Green Bank Observatory)X-ray Observations of a Group of Galaxies Falling into the Coma ClusterStephen Walker (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
AAS 242 Press Conference: Solar Swirls, Satellites, and Saving the Night Sky AAS Press Office 2023-06-06 | Monday, 5 June 2023, 2:15 pm MDTSolar Swirls, Satellites, and Saving the Night SkyWelcomeKerry Hensley (AAS)Characterizing Tornadoes on the SunOana Vesa (New Mexico State University)ORCASat: Calibrating Earth-Based Telescopes from SpaceJustin Albert (University of Victoria)Improved Detection of Satellite Trails in Hubble ImagingDavid Stark (Space Telescope Science Institute)Flagstaff, Arizona and Coconino County Show How to Save the Night Sky for Astronomy, People, and NatureJames Lowenthal (Smith College / AAS COMPASSE Light Pollution Subcommittee)
AAS 242 Press Conference: Discoveries in Distant Galaxies AAS Press Office 2023-06-06 | Monday, 5 June 2023, 10:15 am MDTDiscoveries in Distant GalaxiesWelcomeSusanna Kohler (AAS)Jetted and Turbulent Stellar Deaths: New LIGO-Detectable Sources of Gravitational WavesOre Gottlieb (Northwestern University)Introduction to the JWST/JADES ProjectMarcia Rieke (University of Arizona)The Cosmos in Its Infancy: JWST/JADES Reveals Hundreds of Galaxies at z greater than 8Kevin Hainline (Steward Observatory)Uncovering Properties of Dwarf Galaxies in the Early Universe with JWSTRyan Endsley (The University of Texas at Austin)JWST Smokes Out Organic Molecules in Early UniverseJane Rigby (NASA Goddard SFC)Illuminating Star Formation in the Warped, Dusty Galaxy El Anzuelo with JWSTPatrick Kamieneski (Arizona State University)
HEAD 20 Press Conference AAS Press Office 2023-03-29 | 20th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division, Waikōloa, HITuesday, 28 March 2023, 8:00 am HSTWelcomeKerry Hensley (AAS Deputy Press Officer)Gamma-Ray Burst 221009A: The Brightest of All Time (The BOAT)Eric Burns (Louisiana State University)The Paradigm-Altering Jet of GRB 221009AKate Alexander (University of Arizona)JWST and Hubble on the Hunt for the SupernovaAndrew Levan (Radboud University)GRBs as ProbesSergio Campana (National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy)Polarization from GRB 221009AMichela Negro (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland, Baltimore County)Q&A
AAS 227 Press Conference: VANDAM Radio Survey, Stellar Bow Shocks, Gas-Cloud Mystery AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FLDue to technical issues, only a portion of this press conference was recorded. The recorded content is as follows:Searching for Stellar Twins, Triplets, and More at the Time of Star Birth: The VLA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity (VANDAM) SurveyJohn Tobin (Leiden Observatory)Hunting for the Youngest Protostellar Disks with the VLA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity (VANDAM) SurveyDominique Segura-Cox (University of Illinois)
AAS 227 Press Conference: Life in Clusters, Stellar Cores, Eta Carinae Twins, Star-Forming Galaxies AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FLTuesday, 5 January 2016, 10:15 pm ESTDue to technical issues, only a portion of this press conference was recorded. The recorded content is as follows:WelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life and Advanced CivilizationsRoseanne Di Stefano (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)A Prevalence of Powerful Magnetic Fields Within Red Giant StarsJim Fuller (California Institute of Technology)Discovery of Candidate Analogs of the Superstar Eta Carinae (presentation truncated)Rubab Khan (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
AAS 227 Seminar for Science Writers: Science from SOFIA AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FLThursday, 7 January 2016, 10:15 am ESTDue to technical issues, only a portion of this press conference was recorded. The recorded content is as follows:WelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)SOFIA/FORCAST Grism Spectra of Classical Novae: Chemical Evolution of the UniverseR. D. Gehrz (University of Minnesota)What SOFIA Observations Tell Us About Planetary Debris Disks (presentation truncated)Kate Su (University of Arizona)
AAS 227 Press Conference: Fermis Vision, First Stars, Massive Galaxy Cluster, Dark Matter AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FLThursday, 7 January 2016, 2:15 pm ESTDue to technical issues, only a portion of this press conference was recorded. The recorded content is as follows:WelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Office)Fermi Mission Sharpens Its High-Energy ViewMarco Ajello (Clemson University)Fingerprints of the First Stars: The Discovery of Possible Population III Remnants at Redshift 3.5 (presentation truncated)John M. O'Meara (St. Michael's College)
AAS 227 Press Conference: Black Holes, Andromeda Galaxy, Small-Planet Masses AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Kissimmee, FLTuesday, 5 January 2016, 10:15 am ESTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)Black Hole Biggest LoserJulie Comerford (University of Colorado, Boulder)NGC 5195: Feedback "Burps" After a Massive Meal?Eric Schlegel (University of Texas at San Antonio)Andromeda Galaxy Scanned with High-Energy X-ray VisionDaniel R. Wik (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Johns Hopkins University)Determining the Mass of Kepler-78b with Nonparametric Gaussian Process EstimationSamuel K. Grunblatt (University of Hawaii)Q&A
DPS 47: Ios Volcanos; Impact on an Asteroid; Comet 67P from Rosetta; Gemini Planet Imager Part II AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 47th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, National Harbor, MDThursday, 12 November 2015 , 12:00 pm ESTContinued from Part I:Evidence for an Impact Event on (493) GriseldisDavid Tholen (University of Hawaii)The 67P Nucleus Composition and Temporal Variations Observed by the OSIRIS Cameras Onboard RosettaSonia Fornasier (LESIA–Observatoire de Paris, CNRS)Observed Changes in the Physical Environment and Chemistry in the Inner Coma of 67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoDennis Bodewitz (University of Maryland)Discovery and Follow Up of 51 Eri b, a Directly Imaged Jupiter-like Exoplanet, and Status of the GPIES CampaignFranck Marchis (SETI Institute)Q&A
DPS 47: Ios Volcanos; Impact on an Asteroid; Comet 67P from Rosetta; Gemini Planet Imager Part I AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 47th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, National Harbor, MDMonday, 9 November 2015 , 12:00 pm ESTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)Large Binocular Telescope Observations of Europa Occulting Io's Volcanoes at 4.8 MicronsMichael Skrutskie (University of Virginia)Continued in Part II:Evidence for an Impact Event on (493) GriseldisDavid Tholen (University of Hawaii)The 67P Nucleus Composition and Temporal Variations Observed by the OSIRIS Cameras Onboard RosettaSonia Fornasier (LESIA–Observatoire de Paris, CNRS)Observed Changes in the Physical Environment and Chemistry in the Inner Coma of 67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoDennis Bodewitz (University of Maryland)Discovery and Follow Up of 51 Eri b, a Directly Imaged Jupiter-like Exoplanet, and Status of the GPIES CampaignFranck Marchis (SETI Institute)Q&A
DPS 47: Near-Earth Asteroids; Martian Chemistry; Titans Cloudy Stratosphere; Exoplanet Hazes AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 47th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, National Harbor, MDWednesday, 11 November 2015 , 12:00 pm ESTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)Finding and Study Asteroids with NEOWISECarolyn Nugent (California Institute of Technology/IPAC)ChemCam at Gale Crater: Highlights and Discoveries from Three Years of Chemical Measurements on MarsDiana Blaney (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Main-Belt Source Regions for Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Asteroids and Sample Return TargetsRichard Binzel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Monstrous Ice Cloud System in Titan's Present South Polar StratosphereCarrie Anderson (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)Under an Orange Sky: The Many Implications of Organic Haze for Earth-like PlanetsGiada Arney (University of Washington)Q&A
DPS 47: Mercurys Exosphere; Phoboss Surface; Lunar Volatiles; Defining Planets Quantitatively AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 47th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, National Harbor, MDTuesday, 10 November 2015 , 12:00 pm ESTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)A Seasonal Feature in Mercury's Exosphere Caused by Meteoroids from Comet EnckeApostolos Christou (Armagh Observatory, UK)Surface Evolution from Orbital Decay on PhobosTerry Hurford (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)Lunar Voltaile Depletion Due to Incomplete Accretion Within an Impact-Generated DiskRobin Canup (Southwest Research Institute)A Quantitative Criterion for Defining PlanetsJean-Luc Margot (University of California, Los Angeles)Q&A
DPS 47: The New Horizons Encounter with the Pluto System: Geology, Atmospheres & Satellites AAS Press Office 2023-03-22 | 47th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, National Harbor, MDMonday, 9 November 2015 , 12:00 pm ESTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)Opening RemarksCurt Niebur (NASA Headquarters)The New Horizons Encounter: OverviewAlan Stern (Southwest Research Institute)Pluto's Small Satellites SurpriseMark Showalter (SETI Institute)New Horizons Geology DiscoveriesOliver White (NASA Ames Research Center)Cratering on Pluto and CharonKelsi Singer (Southwest Research Institute)New Horizons Atmospheric DiscoveriesLeslie Young (Southwest Research Institute)Cratering ImplicationsAlex Parker (Southwest Research Institute)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: Predictions & Probabilities AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAThursday, 8 January 2015, 2:15 pm PSTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)Update on VLBA Astrometry of CassiniDayton Jones (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology)A Machine Learning Method to Infer Fundamental Stellar PropertiesAdam Miller (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology)Map of Enigmatic Molecules and a Century-Old PuzzleBrice Ménard (Johns Hopkins University)Flashes from Faster-Than-Light Spots May Help Illuminate Astronomical SecretsRobert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: Black Holes & Binary Stars AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAThursday, 8 January 2015, 10:15 am PSTWelcomeInge Heyer (AAS Deputy Press Officer)Discovery of Periodic Variable Quasars: A Possible Signature of Binary Supermassive Black HolesGeorge Djorgovski (California Institute of Technology)Will the Real Monster Black Hole Please Stand Up?Daniel Stern (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)The Disappearance of the Cosmic Spinning TopJoeri van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam)The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae: Big Science with Small TelescopesBianca Danilet (The Ohio State University)Q&A
AAS 225 Seminar for Science Writers: HST @ 25 AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAWednesday, 7 January 2015, 2:15 pm PSTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)Changing the Textbooks: Classic Early Achievements of the Hubble Space TelescopeJennifer Wiseman (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)New Frontiers: Hubble's Unexpected AccomplishmentsKenneth Sembach (Space Telescope Science Institute)Exploring the Solar System with HubbleMelissa McGrath (NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center)The Undiscovered Country: HST Deep SurveysJennifer Lotz (Space Telescope Science Institute)JWST and WFIRST: Making Hubble Even More Powerful in the 2020sJason Kalirai (Space Telescope Science Institute; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: Superstar Eta Carinae AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAWednesday, 7 January 2015, 10:15 am PSTWelcomeLarry Marshall (AAS Deputy Press Officer)The X-ray Variability of Eta Carinae Michael Corcoran (Universities Space Research Association and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)Changes in Eta Carinae's Physical Properties?Mairan Teodoro (Western Michigan University)Deciphering Eta Carinae's Interacting Winds with 3D Printed ModelsTom Madura (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)The Blue(-shifted) Crab of Eta CarinaeTed Gull (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: Sloan Digital Sky Survey AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAMonday, 5 January 2015, 10:15 am PSTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) and Michael Wood-Vasey (University of Pittsburgh)The Final Public Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IIIConnie Rockosi (University of California, Santa Cruz)SDSS-III BOSS: Probing Dark Energy with the World's Largest Extragalactic Redshift SurveyDaniel Eisenstein (Harvard University)SDSS-III MARVELS: Searching for Giant Exoplanets 60 Stars at a TimeJian Ge (University of Florida)SDSS-III APOGEE: Revealing the Evolution of the Milky Way with Infrared EyesSteven Majewski (University of Virginia)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: Exoplanets & Host Stars II AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WATuesday, 6 January 2015, 10:15 am PSTWelcomeLarry Marshall (AAS Deputy Press Officer)New Habitable Zone Planet Candidates from the Sixth Kepler CatalogFergal Mullally (SETI Institute at NASA Ames)New Small Habitable Zone Planets from KeplerDouglas Caldwell (SETI Institute at NASA Ames)Disk Detective: Help NASA Find New Planetary SystemsMarc Kuchner (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)First Semester Science Operations with the Gemini Planet ImagerMarshall Perrin (Space Telescope Science Institute)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: The Milky Way & Local Group AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAMonday, 5 January 2015, 2:15 pm PSTWelcomeInge Heyer (AAS Deputy Press Officer)The Milky Way's Massive Black Hole Lashes Out: The Chandra/VLA Galactic Center Campaigns Targeting Sgr A* and G2Daryl Haggard (Amherst College)Hubble Clocks the High-Velocity Outflow from the Milky Way's CoreAndrew Fox (Space Telescope Science Institute)An Icon Revisited: New Photos of the Eagle NebulaPaul Scowen (Arizona State University)First Results of the Survey of MAgellanic Stellar History SMASHDavid L. Nidever (University of Michigan)The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda TreasuryJulianne Dalcanton (University of Washington)Q&A
AAS 225 Press Conference: Exoplanets & Host Stars I AAS Press Office 2023-03-21 | 225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WAMonday, 5 January 2015, 10:15 am PSTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)The Kepler Cluster Study: Building a Clock for StarsSøren Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)A Recipe for Rocky PlanetsCourtney Dressing (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Fate of Oceans on Earth-like PlanetsLaura Schaefer (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Commentary by Debra Fischer (Yale University)Q&A
DPS 46: Seminar for Science Writers: The New Horizons Encounter with Pluto in 2015 AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 46th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, Tucson, AZThursday, 13 November 2014, 12:00 pm MSTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)New Horizons to Explore the Pluto System in 2015: The Big PictureAlan Stern (Southwest Research Institute)Pluto in the Context of Planetary ExplorationJonathan Lunine (Cornell University)The New Horizons Instrument Payload: Revolutionary CapabilitiesJoel Parker (Southwest Research Institute)Waking New Horizons Up for EncounterAlice Bowman (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)The New Horizons Encounter: A Look AheadHal Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)Q&A
DPS 46: Near-Earth Asteroids; Vestas History; Bennu: Target of OSIRIS-REx; Uranuss Atmosphere AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 46th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, Tucson, AZWednesday, 12 November 2014, 12:00 pm MSTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)The Population of Small NEAsAlan Harris (MoreData!)Vesta Is Not an Intact ProtoplanetGuy Consolmagno (Vatican Observatory)The Physical, Geophysical, and Dynamical Nature of Asteroid (101955) BennuDante Lauretta (University of Arizona)Unusual Activity in the Atmosphere of Uranus in 2014Imke de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)Uranus's Southern Circulation Revealed by Voyager 2Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona)Q&A
DPS 46: Venus Express Aerobraking; Venus Aurora; Main-Belt Comet; Comet Siding Spring; Binary Planet AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 46th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, Tucson, AZTuesday, 11 November 2014, 12:00 pm MSTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)Results of the Venus Express Aerobraking CampaignHåkan Svedhem (European Space Agency)Venus's Mysterious AuroraCandace Gray (New Mexico State University)Discovery of the Fast Spinning Main Belt Comet (62412) 2000 SY178Scott Sheppard (Carnegie Institution for Science)Hubble Space Telescope View of Comet C/2013 A1Jian-Yang Li (Planetary Science Institue)Binary PlanetsKeegan Ryan (California Institute of Technology)Q&A
DPS 46: Baby Planetary System; Twin Asteroid Occultation; Tailless Comet; Titans Lakes & Seas AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 46th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences, Tucson, AZMonday, 10 November 2014 , 12:00 pm MSTWelcomeVishnu Reddy (DPS Press Officer)The Debris Structures of HD 95086: A Young Analog of HR 8799Kate Su (Steward Observatory)The Planetary System of HD 95086: A Young Analog of HR 8799?Sarah Morrison (University of Arizona)Shape and Size of Patroclus and Menoetius from a Stellar OccultationMarc Buie (Southwest Research Institute)First Observations of the Surfaces of Objects from the Oort CloudKaren Meech (University of Hawaii)The Depth, Composition, and Sea State of Titan's MareAlexander Hayes (Cornell University)Q&A
AAS 224 Press Conference: Solar Explosions in Fine Detail AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Boston, MAMonday, 2 June 2014, 10:15 am EDTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer)Solving Sunspot MysteriesAlexander Kosovichev (Big Bear Solar Observatory)Discovering Hidden Sources of Solar SurgesSantiago Vargas Dominguez (Big Bear Solar Observatory)High Resolution Observations of Three-Ribbon Flares with New Solar TelescopeHaimin Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)A Revolution in High-Resolution Solar AstronomyThomas Berger (National Solar Observatory)
AAS 224 Press Conference: Exoplanets: From Exhilarating to Exasperating AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Boston, MAMonday, 2 June 2014, 2:15 pm EDTWelcomeLarry Marshall (AAS Deputy Press Officer)Harsh Space Weather May Doom Potential Life of Red-Dwarf PlanetsOfer Cohen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Kepler 56: The Death of Two ExoplanetsGongjie Li (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Three Regimes of Exoplanets Inferred from Host Star MetallicitiesLars A. Buchhave (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Kepler-10c: The "Mega-Earth"Dimitar D. Sasselov (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Q&A
AAS 224 Press Conference: Whats Happening to the Sunspot Cycle? AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Boston, MATuesday, 3 June 2014, 10:15 am EDTWelcomeRick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) and Craig DeForest (Southwest Research Institute)Evolving Structures of Subsurface Motions: Hemispheric Asymmetries and Meridional FlowRichard S. Bogart (Stanford University)Solar Coronal Temperature During the Rise of Cycle 24Richard C. Altrock (Space Weather Center of Excellence)Are the Rates of CMEs and Sunspots Diverging?David Webb (Boston College)The Current Solar Cycle in ContextSarbani Basu (Yale University)Q&A
AAS 224 Press Conference: Galaxies Across the Spectrum AAS Press Office 2023-03-20 | 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Boston, MATuesday, 3 June 2014, 2:15 pm EDTWelcomeInge Heyer (AAS Deputy Press Officer)Chandra and VLA Observations of a Giant Particle AcceleratorReinout van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)Ultraviolet Imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep FieldHarry Teplitz (IPAC/Caltech)The Black Hole X-ray binary Population of the Whirlpool Galaxy as Seen by ChandraRoy Kilgard (Wesleyan University)Hybrid Blazars Go Electric When OldMarco Ajello (Clemson University)Q&A
