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Room: Kahtnu 2

Date: 5/1/2024

Session Time: 4:30 PM to 5:45 PM (local time)

The 24 September 2023 re-entry of the NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule (SRC) was only the fifth re-entry from interplanetary space since the end of the Apollo era. It provided a unique opportunity to geophysically observe an ‘artificial meteor’ with known dimensions, speed, and mass. A diverse set of institutions utilized nodal seismic arrays, ground and airborne acoustic sensors, distributed acoustic sensing, GPS sounding, and ionosphere Doppler sounding to record the object’s passage through the atmosphere. Results from these studies have implications for the remote detection and characterization of meteoroids and high-speed artificial objects (e.g., re-entry, orbital debris) on Earth and may inform mission concepts for planetary exploration (e.g., Venus, Mars, Titan, Jupiter). We invite contributions that emphasize geophysical observations of the OSIRIS-REx SRC re-entry, and discuss their broad scientific implications for remote sensing on Earth and beyond.

Conveners:
Chris Carr, Los Alamos National Laboratory (cgcarr@lanl.gov)
Brian Elbing, Oklahoma State University (elbing@okstate.edu)
Charles Langston, University of Memphis (clangstn@memphis.edu)
Richard Lewis, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (richard.d.lewis1.civ@mail.mil)
Yasuhiro Nishikawa, Kochi University of Technology (nishikawa.yasuhiro@kochi-tech.ac.jp)
Elizabeth A. Silber, Sandia National Laboratory (esilbe@sandia.gov)

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