FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: IAU Focus Meeting 8:

"Planetary Astronomy via Telescopic and Microscopic Approaches"

Dates: 2-3 August 2022 (during the 31st IAUGA on 2-11 August)

Venue: IAUGA, BEXCO, Busan, Republic of Korea + online

Website: https://www.iau.org/science/meetings/future/2600/

https://iau2021fm8.kasi.re.kr/

Rationale:

Fifty years have passed since Apollo 11, the first successful manned mission to land on the Moon. Since then, the planetary science community has grown tremendously, surveying small Solar System bodies by telescope, sending spacecraft to all major planets, and sending spacecraft to some of the smaller Solar System bodies. These celestial bodies have not been reachable in the past, but are now visited by spacecraft and closely investigated with the aid of onboard instruments. The research targets in planetary science have downsized significantly from kilometer to submicron or even smaller sizes. Theoretical approaches such as light scattering models for understanding the observational data have similarly grown in sophistication.  

In addition, a series of sample return projects enable us to establish a link between telescopic and microscopic approaches. Starting with the Stardust and Hayabusa1 missions, planetary scientists are now analyzing extraterrestrial materials in the laboratory, under the microscope, and at nanoscale. The Hayabusa2 brought the samples from Ryugu in 2020, and the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will carry Bennu's materials in 2023. This research is very important not only for understanding our Solar System but also for understanding chemical evolution in other planetary systems. Broadening the lens and studying other planetary systems will allow us to construct comprehensive references for distant worlds. In other words, we are making progress and growing sophisticated in Solar System research with telescopes and microscopes, and we are about to establish a new frontier in research linking the Solar System, exoplanets, planet-forming regions, and astrobiology.

In this context, we organize this Focus Meeting (FM8) during the IAUGA2022 in Busan, the Republic of Korea. In this meeting, we expect that planetary astronomers who study their targets with a wide range of size scales using various techniques gather together to exchange their ideas and recent findings, and provide an opportunity to set future science goals to be achieved in the coming decades.

Registration and Abstract Submission:

Registration takes place through the 31st IAUGA website (www.iauga2022.org). There are two options for the registration: in-person and virtual. For detailed information, please refer to the official website of IAUGA2022.

Important Dates (see also http://www.iauga2022.org/):

Early bird registration: 1 January - 28 February

Regular registration: 1 March - 31 May

Late/on-site registration: 1 June - 11 August

Regular abstract submission: 1 January - 31 March

Abstract submission for e-Poster/e-Talk: 1 January - 31 May

IAU Grant application submission: 1 January - 31 March

General Assembly: 2-11 August

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

·  Sei-ichiro Watanabe (Nagoya, Univ., Japan)

·  Dante Lauretta (Univ. Arizona, USA)

·  Irina N. Belskaya (Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

·  Maria N. Drozdovskaya (Universität Bern, Switzerland)

·  Yuri Aikawa (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

·  Patrick Michel (CNRS, France)

·  Woojin Kwon (Seoul National Univ., Korea)

·  Beth Ellen Clark (Ithaca College, USA)

·  Maria Antonella Barucci (Observatoire de Paris, France)

Scientific Organizing Committee:

·  Hong-Kyu Moon (KASI, Korea), SOC Chair

·  Masateru Ishiguro (Seoul National Univ., Korea), LOC Chair

·  Maria Antonella Barucci (Observatoire de Paris, France)

·  Ricardo A. Gil-Hutton (UNSJ, Argentina)

·  Makoto Yoshikawa (ISAS/JAXA, Japan)

·  Beth Ellen Clark (Ithaca College, USA)

·  Karri O. Muinonen (Univ. Helsinki, Finland)

·  Hikaru Yabuta (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)

·  Amanda A. Sickafoose (SAAO, South Africa)

·  Young-Jun Choi (KASI, Korea)

·  Jeong-Eun Lee (Kyung Hee Univ., Korea)

If you have any questions regarding this Focus Meeting (FM8), please contact (iau2022fm8@kasi.re.kr). For general inquiries about the IAUGA 2022, please refer to the official website (http://www.iauga2022.org/) or contact sec@iauga2022.org.