LPSC XLI

I'll spend next week at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference outside of Houston. I've long been a regular attendee of GSA and I've been to the occasional AGU, but this is my first time at LPSC. It's the big conference in planetary sciences and it's purported to be kind of a zoo. Should be fun.

The extended abstract for each talk and poster presentation is posted online and can be searched by author or by session, for the interested reader. Some of the sessions relevant to topics I've blogged on that I'll try to attend are: LCROSS, Chandrayaan, and Chang'e-1 results; terrestrial impact craters; Mercury MESSENGER results; these two sessions on Martian igneous processes and geochemistry; and lunar petrology. Talks on volatiles in the Earth and Moon are scattered throughout these and other sessions. I expect that I'll be running from session to session and missing at least half of what I should see, but that's the way these things go. I'm giving a poster presentation so my stress is light (now that it's completed and printed).

I may post during the conference, depending on how harried I am, or I might even consider using my virtually untouched twitter account at IapetusBeat. But I may just write up a retrospective afterwards.

Cheers.