Dates and Location

The Comet Interceptor SWT Meeting #7 will take place on 27th - 28th October 2025 in the Einstein Room  at ESTEC.

 

Registration

Registration is now closed.

 

Logistics

Information about meeting logistics can be found on the top as a subitem to this SWT #7 page.

 

Programme

27 October 2025

Working Groups

13:00   Working Group meetings (summary session for TIWG and CEWG)

Open SWT Meeting (Part 1)

14:30   Welcome, Introduction (M. Küppers, H. Kawakita)

14:40   ESA Update (including alternative launch scenario, N. Rando, M. Küppers)

15:30   JAXA Project Update (R. Funase)

15:45   Instrument Lead Scientist update (emphasis on science aspects), Instrument Lead Scientists, 10 min per instrument, 20 min for DFP)

  • Science activities within the instrument team
  • Calibration aspects (synthesis of needs, approach, planning)

  Coffee break within the block

17:45   The Soul of a Comet - performance art meets science (by and with Kaartik Denny and Stavro Ivanovski)

  Dance and theater explore our cosmic origins and shared human story. 

18:05   Adjourn

18:15   Dinner cocktail (Crab tail) 

 

 28 October 2025

=======================================================================

09:00   Meeting of the SWT Executive

=======================================================================

Open SWT Meeting (Part 2)

10:30   Report from SOWG (incl.  CISDC status)

10:50   Report from CEWG 

11:10   Report from TIWG (incl. LSST status)

11:30   Coffee break

12:00   Analysis of predicted comet position and velocity (P. Lacerda)

12:15   Non-gravitational effects on position uncertainties of Comet Interceptor targets (N. Attree)

12:30   Discussion

Science session

13:00   Expected Distribution of Dynamically New Comets in the Galactic Coordinate System (A. Higuchi)

13:15   Cometary dust after Rosetta: A team effort (G. Rinaldi)

13:30   Lunch

14:30   The Long Period Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos): a monitoring study in support to ESA Comet Interceptor space mission (E. Mazzotta Epifani)

14:45   Photometric follow up of comet 3I/ATLAS since its discovery: will it weak up during its postperihelion path? (J. M. Trigo-Rodríguez)

15:00   Galactic cosmic ray processing: a key to interpreting cometary and interstellar objects observations (J. de Keyser)​​​​​​​

15:15   Modeling Gas and Dust Activity with AMPS: Surface vs. Extended Sources in Cometary Comae (Y. Shou)

15:30   Production of water vapor from mixtures of agglomerates (K. Kossacki)

15:45   Coffee break

16:05   Photopolarimetry of Regolith Simulants: Effects of Absorption and Surface Roughness (F. J. García Izquierdo)

16:20   Spectral Optimization of the TIRI Instrument of MIRMIS (K. Shirley)

16:35   Comet Interceptor virtual encounters: an update on statistics and circumstances (M. Kidger)

16:50   AOB, next meeting

17:00   End of SWT Meeting

 

 

PRIVACY NOTICE


The SCI Conference Privacy Notice can be found here.