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Environmental Considerations in the age of Space Exploration: the Conservation and Protection of Non-Earth Environments
Monica R. Vidaurri, Alexander Q. Gilbert
This document is an abbreviated version of the law review, led by Alexander Q. Gilbert, entitled: "Major Federal Actions Significantly Affecting the Quality of the Space Environmen…
Reimagining Near-Earth Space Policy in a Post-COVID World
John C. Barentine, Jessica Heim, Aparna Venkatesan +2
Our planet and our species are at an existential crossroads. In the long term, climate change threatens to upend life as we know it, while the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic revealed th…
An asynchronous object-oriented approach to the automation of the 0.8-meter George Mason University campus telescope in Python
Michael Reefe, Owen Alfaro, Shawn Foster +22
We present a unique implementation of Python coding in an asynchronous object-oriented programming (OOP) framework to fully automate the process of collecting data with the George…
The Outer Edge of the Venus Zone Around Main-Sequence Stars
Monica R. Vidaurri, Sandra T. Bastelberger, Eric T. Wolf +2
A key item of interest for planetary scientists and astronomers is the habitable zone, or the distance from a host star where a terrestrial planet can maintain necessary temperatur…
Asteroid Resource Utilization: Ethical Concerns and Progress
Andrew S. Rivkin, Moses Milazzo, Aparna Venkatesan +4
As asteroid mining moves toward reality, the high bar to entering the business may limit participation and increase inequality, reducing or eliminating any benefit gained by margin…
Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices
Frank Tavares, Denise Buckner, Dana Burton +9
We recommend that the planetary science and space exploration community engage in a robust reevaluation concerning the ethics of how future crewed and uncrewed missions to the Moon…
Challenging Eukaryogenesis: The Story of the Eukaryotic Ancestor
Monica Vidaurri
As the question of the origins of eukaryotes comes closer to an answer, the interactions between the archaeal ancestor to eukaryotes and environmental, molecular, bacterial, other…
An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Sub-Solar Water Abundance
Knicole D. Colón, Laura Kreidberg, Luis Welbanks +30
We present an optical-to-infrared transmission spectrum of the inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11b measured with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the Hubble Space Telesco…
The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics -- Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields
Anamaria Berea, Kathryn Denning, Monica Vidaurri +5
In this paper we showcase the importance of understanding and measuring interdisciplinarity and other -disciplinarity concepts for all scientists, the role social sciences have his…
Absolute Prioritization of Planetary Protection, Safety, and Avoiding Imperialism in All Future Science Missions: A Policy Perspective
Monica Vidaurri, Alia Wofford, Jonathan Brande +3
The prioritization and improvement of ethics, planetary protection, and safety standards in the astro-sciences is the most critical priority as our scientific and exploratory capab…