AAS Meeting Coverage This Week

By Nancy Atkinson - January 4, 2009 at 1:12 PM UTC | Site News
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Prepare for a week of breaking astronomical news as the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is holding its 213th meeting all this week in Long Beach, California. Thousands of astronomers will be coming together to share their research and report their recent findings. Universe Today's Fraser Cain and Ian O'Neill will be in attendance to provide on-site coverage, as well as tracking down the inside scoops and behind the scenes news. In addition, at our sister site Astronomy Cast LIVE, Fraser and Ian will be joining the team of

Pamela Gay,

Chris Lintott, Michael Koppelmann, Jordan Raddick, Georgia Bracey, and Scott Miller to post articles, do live-blogging and provide U-Stream live video from press conferences and other events. I'll be manning the trenches from the 'home office,' reporting on AAS press releases and keeping track of the rest of news going on this week.

So get ready for a ridiculous amount of coverage and some very interesting discoveries that will be announced this week from the AAS meeting.

If you live near Long Beach or are there for the meeting, meet Fraser, Ian and the Astronomy Cast LIVE team at a

"Blogger Meet-up" on Wed. January 7

at the Rock Bottom Brewery from 6pm - 9pm.

And if you are in the area, Tuesday night is the

International Year of Astronomy

opening ceremony at the Long Beach conference center. Observing sponsored by Celestron will take place outside before the 7:45pm ceremony.

For quick news you can follow on Twitter:

Astronomy Cast

Nancy Atkinson

Ian O'Neill

Star Stryder

Georgia Bracey

So, stay tuned for our coverage on Universe Today, and super-sized coverage on Astronomy Cast LIVE.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com