DPS Mailing #01-18: Survey Committee Members Appointed; ACM 2002

Solar System Exploration Survey Committee Members Appointed

On 8 May, the chair of the National Research Council approved the slate of
candidates proposed for the Solar System Exploration Survey Committee by the
Space Studies Board. In addition to the chair, Michael J.S. Belton, the
committee will consist of 13 members. Pending the completion of NRC
formalities, the following individuals have agreed to serve:

Michael A’Hearn–University of Maryland

Joseph A. Burns–Cornell University

Ronald Greeley–Arizona State University

James W. Head, III–Brown University

Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.–Carnegie Institition of Washington

Andrew Ingersoll–California Institute of Technology

David Jewitt–University of Hawaii

John F. Mustard–Brown University

Andrew Nagy–University of Michigan

James Papike–University of New Mexico

Robert T. Pappalardo–University of Colorado

Mitchell Sogin–Marine Biological Laboratory

A. Thomas Young–Lockheed Martin, retired

The members of the Survey Committee’s subsidiary panels will be announced
in the near future.

David H. Smith, Study Director

Solar System Exploration Survey Committee

ASTEROIDS, COMETS, METEORS 2002

The next triennial meeting of the International Conference ASTEROIDS,
COMETS, METEORS – ACM2002 will be held in Berlin from July 29 to
August 2, 2002, on the campus of the Technical University (TU-Berlin),
located in the centre of Berlin. Further information can be found on
the following web page:

http://earn.dlr.de/ACM2002

In order to estimate the number of participants and to update our
mailing list we would appreciate receiving your response by filling out
the on-line form that can be found on the above web site.

Gerhard Neukum, Uri Carsenty, and Gerhard Hahn,

on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee

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Nick Schneider, on behalf of the DPS Committee
(submissions to Al Harris: awharris@lithos.jpl.nasa.gov)