3 October 2024 (materials updated 9 October)

Contacts:
Dr. Teddy Kareta
DPS Press Officer
+1 617-671-5906

Dr. Susanna Kohler
AAS Communications Manager & Press Officer
+1 202-328-2010 x127

Virtual Press Conferences at 2024 Meeting of Division for Planetary Sciences

The 56th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) is being held in Boise, Idaho, and virtually Sunday, 6 October, through Thursday, 10 October 2024. The AAS/DPS offers complimentary press registration to bona fide working journalists and public information officers (PIOs); see details below. We will hold press conferences via Zoom/YouTube on Monday, 7 October, and Wednesday, 9 October, to showcase some of the most exciting discoveries being presented at the meeting. 

In addition to the briefings, the meeting features a rich science program, including plenary sessions with live panel discussions, oral presentations, a virtual poster session, and Q&A/discussions with presenters and fellow attendees via Slack. 

More than 400 planetary scientists, journalists, and others are already registered for the conference. The meeting hashtag is #DPS2024; you may also wish to follow @AAS_Press on Twitter.

DPS 56 Meeting Links

• Meeting Website

• Block Schedule

• Press Information

Press Registration

To request complimentary press registration, first check our eligibility criteria, then send an email message to DPS Press Officer Teddy Kareta ([email protected]) with your name and media affiliation (or “freelance” if applicable). Upon confirming your eligibility, he’ll email you a special promotional code that you can use to register for the meeting the same way regular attendees do, i.e., via the DPS 56 registration page. For step-by-step instructions on what to do next, see the DPS 56 press information page. 

Please register as soon as possible. Note that if you are attempting to register after the meeting is under way, we may not be able to process your registration in time for you to attend that day’s events.

Press Conference Schedule, Topics & Speakers

Press conferences will be conducted via Zoom for press registrants and any other meeting registrants wishing to attend. They’ll also be live-streamed on the AAS Press Office YouTube channel for other interested people who have not registered for the meeting. The briefings will be archived on the AAS Press Office YouTube channel afterward. 

Following is the press-conference program, which remains subject to change. Corresponding abstract numbers are shown in [square brackets]. Briefings are scheduled as follows (all times are MDT = UTC – 6 hours); each briefing will last approximately 1 hour, including time for Q&A: 

• Monday, 7 October, 12:15 pm MDT
• Wednesday, 9 October, 12:15 pm MDT

All findings are embargoed until the time of presentation at the meeting. “Time of presentation” means the start time of the session in which the paper will be given, or the start time of the corresponding press conference (if any), whichever comes first. See the complete AAS/DPS embargo policy for more information.

Note: All new discoveries are subject to confirmation by independent teams of scientists. Inclusion here does not imply endorsement by the American Astronomical Society or the Division for Planetary Sciences. The AAS and DPS do not endorse individual scientific results.

The Inner Solar System
Monday, 7 October, 12:15 pm MDT (Briefing video)

In Search of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids in the Taurid Resonant Swarm
Quanzhi Ye (University of Maryland / Boston University)
[207.01] | Press release

Quantifying Asteroid Impact Energy: Implications for Planetary Defense
Elizabeth A. Silber (Sandia National Laboratories)
[207.03]

The Role of Radioactive Isotopes in the Formation and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets
Victor Oyiboka (University of Texas at Dallas)
[407.01]

Exoplanets and Gas Giant Systems
Wednesday, 9 October, 12:15 pm MDT (Briefing video)

Oscillations within Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Amy Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
[210.02] | STScI press release | ESA press release

The Uranian Moon Ariel, a Carbon Dioxide Wonderland Observed by JWST
Richard Cartwright (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
[412.05]

Investigating the Stability of Trojan and Horseshoe Co-Orbitals in Extrasolar Multi-Planet Systems
Mariah C. Jones (Vassar College / SETI Institute)
[106.04]

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