Public Event: July 10th – A Special Solar System Edition of Astronomy on Tap Seattle

We’re pleased to announce with the help of the Large Synoptic Survey Telecope (LSST) Corporation’s Enabling Science Grant, the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) will be holding a public event as part of our 1st LSST Solar System Sprint in July.  We’ve partnered with Astronomy on Tap: Seattle and Peddler Brewing Company for a special edition of Astronomy on Tap: Seattle. This Solar System Extravaganza will be four public talks:

Location: Peddler Brewing Company, 1514 NW Leary Way Seattle, WA 98107

When: Tuesday July 10, 2018 – 8-10 pm

Cost: Free Entry

Talks:

David Trilling (Northern Arizona University): The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: What it is and why you should care

Michael Mommert (Lowell Observatory):  It’s an asteroid. It’s a comet. It’s complicated…

Kat Volk (University of Arizona): Tales from the Outer Solar System

Andy Rivkin (Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory): A Crash Course in Asteroid Defense

And a special thanks to Peddler Brewing Company for opening on a special day for this event and to Brett Morris and Nicole Sanchez, Astronomy on Tap: Seattle organizers, for making this possible.

See you in Seattle!

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Solar System Talks at LSST@Europe3

There were three Solar System focused science talks at the LSST@Europe 3 meeting, held earlier this month. The talks have been recorded and you can find links to them below:

• LSST Solar System Processing: Status and Plans – Mario Jurić
• Solar System Science Collaboration : Dev Activities and the Not So Obvious Science – Wes Fraser
• The Crucial Need for the North Ecliptic Spur – Michele Bannister

LSST Solar System Science Overview

Lynne Jones made this slide for the 2018 MIAPP NEO workshop that she was attending from May 14-May 25. It gives a really nice summary of LSST and an overview of some of the things LSST will do to inventory the Solar System. A great resource for anyone interested in Solar System science with LSST.

A high resolution version of the slide can be found here.

SSSC at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting

Chad Trujillo and Henry Hsieh presented a poster at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society’s (AOGS) 15th meeting this week in Honolulu about the SSSC’s efforts preparing for LSST first light.

A high resolution version of the poster can be downloaded here