During the week of December 13-17, 2021 Unistellar and its partner, the SETI Institute will be attending and presenting several scientific and educational results at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as online.

Unistellar’s Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute, Franck Marchis will be attending in person, along with Josef Hanus, associate researcher from Charles University. Dorian Cazeneuve, from the SETI Institute, will be attending online.

 

 

The following are talks and posters being presented:

 

  • December 15, 2021 at 12:50 – 12:55 PM CET
    P33A-02 – Physical Properties of Near-Earth Asteroids
    Josef Hanus1, Josef Durech1, Franck Marchis2,3, Joe Asencio3 and Guillaume Blaclard3
    (1) Charles University, Institute of Astronomy, Prague, Czech Republic, (2) SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3) Unistellar, Marseille, France

 

Further readings

3 Reasons to observe this month

On Jupiter: Imagine moons casting their shadows on a giant planet. Right now, Jupiter’s moons offer an exceptional show: eclipses visible even from urban areas. Each time a moon passes in front of the Sun, it creates a shadow that dances across Jupiter’s surface. Check our dedicated article to catch every passage of Io, Europa, or Ganymede.