Tenerife hosts the II International Conference on "Thermal Models in Planetary Science"

Puerto de la Cruz, in Tenerife, will host the conference Thermal Models in Planetary Science II (TherMoPS II) from June 3 to 5, 2015, which has been organized by the IAC and sponsored by the NASA Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS). Javier Licandro, Advanced SO Fellow until May 2014 and now a staff researcher at the IAC, is one of the organizers. It will involve more than 40 world experts in the field of small bodies in the Solar System. 

Starting date: 3 June, 2015 - 9:00
End date: 5 June, 2015 - 17:30
Lugar: Conference Room of Vallemar Hotel, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife
Organizer: IAC

Thermal modelling in planetary sciences has experienced an extraordinary growth in the last ten years, as new thermal infrared data became available for hundreds of thousands of asteroids, comets, moons, transneptunian objects and dust in our Solar System thanks to the space telescopes WISE, Herschel and Spitzer. It's been six years since the first TherMoPS in Beaulieu sur Mer (France) where  worldwide experts in the field updated all aspects involved in the thermal modelling of solar system objects. The new data, and the perspective of using ALMA and JWST, as well as thermal instruments in space probes like BepiColombo or OSIRIS-REx for planetary research, make it imperative a new update.

TherMoPS II will be an opportunity to discuss applications and perspectives of all aspects of thermal models in planetary science, from observations to theory, including laboratory work, and future lines of research, open questions, and new frontiers of thermal modelling of data that were acquired and will be acquired in the near future in the mid and far IR, e.g., with Herschel, Planck, JWST, WISE, ALMA, TPF, GTC, etc and with thermal instruments in space missions to Solar System bodies (e.g., MIRO and VIRTIS in Rosetta, MERTIS in BepiColombo, OTES in OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa II, Spica). The focus will be on small solar system bodies, such as Jupiter trojans, km-sized main belt asteroids, cometary nuclei, trans-neptunian objects.

Further information: conference website