NIRSpec GTO website

2017-01-19 | JWST, TNOs

A quick news: the JWST/NIRSpec website about GTO programs is now live here. I put below the details for my program, also available on the ESA site. This program will focus on constraining the surface composition of 2 Charon-like objects, i.e. mid-sized Transneptunian...

ISSI Team on Main Belt Comets

2017-01-13 | Comets, Ice, MBCs

This week, the ISSI team led by Colin Snodgrass was meeting in wintery Bern, Switzerland. This has been an intense and fruitful week discussing the current state of our understanding of Main Belt Comets, and in particular of the detection of water (either gas or ice)...