Solar-System symposium in Sapporo

A group photo of the 2026 Solar System Symposium in Sapporo! Thank you to everyone who made it so successful with special thanks to Yurimoto-sensei and Tachibana-sensei! We are sad to announce that this year was the last of the annual meetings (expect during COVID 19 pandemic). The cost has become to much to run every year. We hope that one year in the future we can convene again and we are sorry we cannot offer a meeting every year. We have all learned so much from the past meetings and look forward to seeing everyone at other meetings throughout the year.

Just at the start of the COVID 19 global pandemic, we held our annual meeting and we presented images in a random fashion from the meeting. It was highly successful as usual and everyone really enjoyed it! We will miss having the meeting in 2021.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We hope that this announcement finds you and your loved ones healthy and navigating your lives as well as can be expected during this difficult time of the COVID 19 pandemic.

The symposium has been highly successful thanks to the participation of so many excellent researchers. We are extremely grateful for the high-quality science that has been presented at previous symposiums, for the stimulating discussions, and the fun times we all had together (and, of course, for the highly informative interactions on the ski slopes!). Because the future for face-to-face meetings is unclear at this moment, combined with the fact that we are all anxiously awaiting the return of Hayabusa2 in December of this year (and thus we will all be very busy with processing the returned sample next year), we felt it was in the everyone's interest not to hold the symposium in February of 2021. Therefore, we will skip a year. We wish you all the very best of health and enthusiastically look forward to seeing you the next chance we have to come together.

All the very best,

Chair: Hisayoshi Yurimoto
Co-chairs: Shogo Tachibana, Harold C. Connolly Jr., Shigeru Ida, and Lauretta Piani

Registration is now open for 3S 2020, please go to our website. More information to follow soon.

The website for the 2020 meeting is now open:

3s2020

Mark your calendars: 3S 2020 will be held from 17-19 February 2020. A new website will be on-line in the near future. We'll post registration dates and other important information on this page soon. If you are interested in attending, please write to Harold Connolly at the following address: [email protected]. Attendance is limited.