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Welcome to the October 2026 R&A Peer Review
Review Meeting Date: ?? Oct 2026
ONLINE/VIRTUAL
Last update:Monday September 14, 2026, EMW
Introduction to the PDS SBN and the review process
The PDS Small Bodies Node is a discipline node of the Planetary Data System (PDS) charged with archiving data concerning comets, asteroids and interplanetary dust. The PDS archive is a "deep archive," intended to contain sufficient documentation and ancillary data for future scientists to interpret and use the data long after the original scientists or teams are no longer available to help. It is also intended to provide useful data to researchers in a convenient way at the present time. In reviewing the data you should keep in mind these two complementary goals of preserving the data in a way useable to future generations and making the data easily accessible to current researchers.
How to review the data
All reviewers should read the Instructions for Reviewers and Minimum Required Feedback. Reviewers who are new to PDS should also consult How to Approach a PDS4 Data Set.
The Review Meeting
The review period starts on 15 Sep 2026 and culminates in the review meeting held on ?? Oct 2026. The review meeting will be held online/virtually.
Meeting Documents:
For each data set, liens collected during the review as well as liens and corrections reported prior to the review are gathered into list(s). These final liens will be posted in the table below after the review.
Any notes and/or presentations should be sent to Ludmilla Kolokolova AND COPIED to Elizabeth Warner.
lkolokol [at] umd.edu
ewarner [at] umd.edu
The Data
To browse the data, use the links below. Links to download each of the data sets are available on the individual data set pages. The data sets listed are available to reviewers via a username and password that will be distributed with the meeting information.
The lead reviewer and backup reviewer are indicated after each data set.
Data Sets to be Reviewed
All data sets are presented in a PDS4 structure (with some additional support files for the review).
| Facility | Data Set ID | Contents | Lead Reviewer | Second Reviewer | Post-review Liens |
| W.M. Keck Laboratory in Astrochemistry | urn:nasa:pds:gbl-keck_lab:ir_ices_lab_spectra::1.0 | Infrared Spectra of Trans-Neptunian Object Ice Analogs | |||
| McDonald Observatory | urn:nasa:pds:gbo-mcdonald:comet_echelle_survey::1.0 | The McDonald Observatory High Spectral Resolving Power Observations of Comets | |||
| UWO Meteor Radar Complex | urn:nasa:pds:gbo-uwo_meteor_radar:document::1.0 | University of Western Ontario (UWO) Meteor Radar Complex Document Collection | |||
| urn:nasa:pds:gbo-uwo_meteor_radar:meteor_orbits::1.0 | Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance Meteoroid Orbit Database | ||||
| urn:nasa:pds:gbo-uwo_meteor_radar:meteor_shower::1.0 | Data collection for Jenniskens 2023 List of Meteor Showers |
