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Upcoming Meetings

35th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG)

June 9–11, 2026 | Fully Virtual

To register, please submit this form by June 4th, 2026. For early career researchers interested in presenting their work as an invited or lightning talk and/or in participating in the Meeting Mentors program, please fill out this application by 5pm EDT on May 11th, 2026. For questions, please contact Terik Daly at terik.daly@jhuapl.edu.

Meeting Agenda

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June 9, 2026

Start Time (EDT) Topic Speaker
9:00 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks Terik Daly
9:15 AM NASA Planetary Science Division (PSD) Update Louise Prockter
9:50 AM NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) Update Kelly Fast
10:10 AM NASA Small Bodies Science Update Tom Statler
10:25 AM Break
10:40 AM Hera Patrick Michel
10:50 AM RAMSES Paolo Martino
11:00 AM SMPAG Apophis Working Group Gerhard Kminek
11:10 AM Planning for the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence (Asteroids2029) Alex Karl
11:20 AM Open Mic Session in Breakout Rooms led by the Steering Committee
11:45 AM Synthesis, Community Statements, and Closing Remarks led by Terik Daly
12:00 PM Adjourn

June 10, 2026

Start Time (EDT) Topic Speaker
12:00 PM Day 2 Framing & Objectives Terik Daly
12:15 PM Deep Space Network Update Greg Heckler
12:30 PM CLPS Program and Potential Lessons for Small Bodies Missions Brad Bailey
12:45 PM Early Career Invited Talk #1 TBD
12:55 PM Early Career Invited Talk #2 TBD
1:05 PM Early Career Lightning Talks TBD
1:15 PM Break
1:30 PM 3I/ATLAS Post-Perihelion Observations - JWST Martin Cordiner
1:40 PM 3I/ATLAS Post-Perihelion Observations - ALMA Luis Eduardo Salazar Manzano
1:50 PM 2024 YR4 - JWST Observations from 2026 Andy Rivkin
2:00 PM Vera C. Rubin Observatory Meg Schwamb
2:10 PM Minor Planet Center Federica Spoto
2:20 PM Open Mic Session in Breakout Rooms led by the Steering Committee
2:45 PM Synthesis, Community Statements, and Closing Remarks led by Terik Daly
3:00 PM Adjourn

June 11, 2026

Start Time (EDT) Topic Speaker
3:00 PM Day 3 Framing & Objectives Terik Daly
3:15 PM NEO Surveyor Amy Mainzer
3:25 PM Greenbank Radar Efforts Patrick Taylor
3:35 PM NASA IRTF strategic planning Warren Skidmore
3:45 PM OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer Dani DellaGiustina
3:55 PM Coordination of Telescopic Apophis Observations Leading to 2029: IAWN Vishnu Reddy
4:05 PM Coordination of Telescopic Apophis Observations Leading to 2029: 2027-2028 Photometry Petr Pravec
4:15 PM Open Mic Session in Breakout Rooms led by the Steering Committee
4:40 PM Break
4:55 PM MMX Ryodo Hemmi
5:05 PM Hayabusa2 Satoshi Tanaka
5:15 PM DESTINY+ Tomoko Arai
5:25 PM Tianwen-2 Zhang He
5:35 PM Synthesis, Community Statements, and Closing Remarks led by Terik Daly
6:00 PM Adjourn