Mini-symposium on “Asteroids” (pdf)
The mini-symposium on asteroids will be organized within the Stardust Final Conference on Asteroids and Space Debris, held at ESA-ESTEC (The Netherlands), 31st October - 4th November, 2016.
The mini-symposium will take place over two days (31st October and 1st November), and will focus on Collision among Solar System objects. It will consist of two sessions entitled: "Collision rates and impact risks" and "Asteroid origins and characterization". The aim of each session is to review the-state-of-the-art of the corresponding lines of research, but also to present ongoing projects, and to discuss directions for the future developments.
Main Topics:
Session 1: Collision rates and impact risks
- Methods to estimate collisional probabilities
- Velocity distributions among colliding objects
- Observational constraints on collision rates
- Outcomes of impact events
- Methods for asteroid orbit determination
- Probability of Collisions with Earth
- Post-mitigation impact probability
Session 2: Asteroid Origins and Characterization
• Asteroid taxonomic classifications
• Internal structure of asteroids
• The near-Earth asteroid population models
• Origins of near-Earth asteroids
• Double and multiple asteroids (theory and observations)
Keynote speakers:
Dagmara Oszkiewicz - Lowell Observatory, AZ, USA
Hans Rickman - Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala, Sweden
Patrick Michel - Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France
Important dates:
· 5th September 2016 (it was 31st July 2016): Extended Abstract submissions
· 31st Oct – 4th Nov 2016: The Final Stardust Conference
· 31st Oct & 01st Nov 2016: Asteroid Symposia
Contact:
Bojan Novakovic - Department of Astronomy, University of Belgrade, email:
[email protected]