| Date: | 2019-07-10 18:23:08 | |
| Sender: | ”Noll, Carey E. (GSFC-61A0)” <carey.e.noll@nasa.gov> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No.2582: AGU Session: Science and Technology from 50 Years of Lunar Laser Ranging | |
| Author: | unknown | |
| Content: | Dear Colleagues: On this special occasion, the 50 year anniversary of lunar ranging, we call your attention to a session at the 2019 Fall AGU ”Science and Technology from 50 Years of Lunar Laser Ranging”. We solicit talks from current practitioners and analysts, and from those with a historical perspective. What were and still are the challenges? What have we learned so far? What is on the horizon? Abstracts are due by the end of July. Very few of us will be around for the 100th, so we should celebrate now with this special session. Session Description: 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface. During this mission, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin deployed an array of cube corner reflectors on the lunar surface. This was the beginning of the long-lasting science program of Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR). Today, half a century later, LLR is the only remaining science experiment of the Apollo era. LLR is able to determine many parameters associated with Earth-Moon dynamics, including the lunar ephemeris, lunar physics, the Moons interior, reference frames and Earth orientation parameters. LLR has also become one of the strongest tools for testing Einsteins theory of general relativity in the solar system, like the temporal variation of the gravitational constant and the strong equivalence principle. This session invites contributions that report on the achieved science goals, outline the current technological and modeling challenges, as well as drawing up goals for the future. Primary Section/Focus Group: Geodesy See you in San Francisco, Mike Pearlman Director, ILRS Central Bureau ----- Ms. Carey Noll Manager, Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) Secretary, ILRS Central Bureau Secretary, GGOS Bureau for Networks and Observations NASA GSFC Code 61A Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA E-mail: Carey.Noll@nasa.gov Voice: (301) 614-6542 Fax: (301) 614-6015 WWW: https://cddis.nasa.gov -----Original Message----- From: Mike Pearlman Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 11:39 AM To: ”Schreiber, Ulrich” Cc: ”Noll, Carey E. (GSFC-61A0)” Subject: [EXTERNAL] AGU Session: Science and Technology from 50 Years of Lunar Laser Ranging Session Ulli, Jean Marie, and Juergen, I am planning to go out with this message. Does it look okay? Mike Dear Colleagues: On this special occasion, the 50 year anniversary of lunar ranging, we call your attention to a session at AGU ”Science and Technology from 50 Years of Lunar Laser Ranging”. We solicit talks from current practitioners and analysts, and from those with a historical perspective. What were and still are the challenges? What have we learned so far? What is on the horizon? Abstracts are due by the end of July. Very few of us will be around for the 100th, so we should celebrate now with this special session. Session Description: 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface. During this mission, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin deployed an array of cube corner reflectors on the lunar surface. This was the beginning of the long-lasting science program of Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR). Today, half a century later, LLR is the only remaining science experiment of the Apollo era. LLR is able to determine many parameters associated with Earth-Moon dynamics, including the lunar ephemeris, lunar physics, the Moons interior, reference frames and Earth orientation parameters. LLR has also become one of the strongest tools for testing Einsteins theory of general relativity in the solar system, like the temporal variation of the gravitational constant and the strong equivalence principle. This session invites contributions that report on the achieved science goals, outline the current technological and modeling challenges, as well as drawing up goals for the future. Primary Section/Focus Group: Geodesy See you in San Francisco, Mike Pearlman Director, Central Bureau ILRS |