Planetary Decadal Study News 27 Aug 2001

PLANETARY DECADAL STUDY NEWS – UPDATE

New community decadal panels continue to form. You are invited
to participate!

Mercury

Venus

Instrument Technology Development (Organizer: James Hoffman)

Recent postings in the following Forums:

Planetary Atmospheres

Sample Return Missions

Education and Public Outreach

Mercury

Venus

Moon

Titan

Main Belt Asteroids

Interplanetary Dust

Go to http://www.aas.org/~dps/decadal
Click on Real-Time Forums.

Upcoming NRC panel meetings:

Large Satellites Panel, SEP 17-19, Location TBD

Steering Group, SEP 19-21, Location TBD

The notice for these meetings at the above URL will be hyperlinked to
their agendas when they are available.

Town Hall meetings on the decadal study were organized and run by
Mike Belton at Lowell Observatory and the Lunar and Planetary Lab
at the University of Arizona on August 6 and 7, respectively.
Mike is Chair of the NRC panel which will be taking all the community
input and writing the final decadal report. There was wide ranging
discussion on a variety of issues, and Mike underscored the importance
of your input to this entire process.

Mark V. Sykes,

DPS Chair

dpschair@aas.org