From the 2nd to the 6th of February 2015 the XII Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie will take place in Bormio. The Congress is organized by the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino with IAPS’ support.
The website of the Congress is at this link (in italian).
Two new positions for non staff are open at IAPS (Bando2015-02-TD e Bando 2015-03-BS).
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In the next weeks, Dawn will start providing the first data and images from asteroid Ceres. In the meanwhile, a paper about asteroid Vesta has been published by VIR team on Icarus. In this article, the team analyzes Marcia crater, the youngest among Vesta’s bigger craters, revaling a past history rich in hydrated material.
Link to download the article (untill the 24th of January): Link
New non staff position at IAPS for the project VIALACTEA (Bando 2014-38-TD23).
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The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for the year 2014 was assigned to Christina Plainaki, IAPS, during the 11th “Space Weather Week”. The prize was assigned for Christina’s work in the fields of cosmic rays phsysics, magnetosphere and space weather.
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Four new positions at IAPS: 2014-37-BS, 2014-34-BS and 2014-32-TD23.
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Three new non staff positions opened at IAPS: Bando 2014-35-BS, Bando 2014-36-AR and Bando 2014-31-TD23.
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On the 12th of November, the lander Philae of the ESA Rosetta mission will land on comet 67P.
After separation, Philae sent to Earth the first CIVA image of Rosetta at 15:30 (in the box).
Follow the event at ESOC on ESA website: http://rosetta.esa.int/
IAPS (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali) belongs to INAF (National Institute for Astrophysics) in the roman area of Tor Vergata. IAPS was born on January 2012, when two historical Institutes were merged: IASF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica and IFSI, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario.
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