Next week: the 6th Binaries in the Solar System (Binaries VI), in Nice, FR 15 to 17 September 2025 https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/ Some highlights (I admit I’m biased here):https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_BAM_1.pdf Monday – 15 SeptemberRachel Cueva Modeling the Dynamical Survivability of Binary Asteroids in… Read More »Binaries In The Solar System Meeting, 2025
The 1 Oct issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters (vol. 667) has: Spitzer, F. Hopp, T. Burkhardt, C. et al. The evolution of planetesimal reservoirs revealed by Fe-Ni isotope anomalies in differentiated meteorites Art 119530 .2025.119530 I’ve said it before,… Read More »Note, Paper: Achondrite Nuclide Insights
More papers in PSJ (Planetary Science Journal), vol. 6 (2025)- they just keep posting: Scully, Jennifer E. C. et al. Leveraging Ceres to Gain Insights into the Candidate Ocean Worlds of Umbriel and Oberon That Orbit Uranus 187 adec97Vinogradoff, Vassilissa… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock-Objects Contexts
The Europlanet-AAS Division for Planetary Science meeting for Friday, Sep. 12 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM10Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions (sample return, analogs, analytical workflow etc.) Low-temperature reflectance spectra of meteorites:… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, V
The details on our interstellar friend keep filling in, now that we have tracking over a nonnegligible observing arc: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.05181[Submitted on 5 Sep 2025]Gray, Z. Bagnulo, S. Borisov, G. et al. Extreme Negative Polarisation… Read More »ATLAS Keeps Tabs on ATLAS…
Just out in Nature Astronomy, first 05 Sep, then 08 Sep: Ciocco, M., Roskosz, M., Doisneau, B. et al. A collisional history of the L chondrite parent bodies s41550-025-02615-6Anderson, S.E., Vernazza, P. & Brož, M. Different arrival times of CM-… Read More »Note, Paper: Chondrite Flight Insights
The meeting for Thursday, Sep. 11 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM8Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces The potential of in-situ THz-spectroscopy to resolve the subsurface structure of Comets – Linus Stoeckli et al.… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, IV
In a few days, the Astronomical Society of Japan will hold its annual meeting, starting Sep 9: www.asj.or.jp/en/activities/nenkai/info/ Ordinarily, this might fall below one’s radar, including mine… except: Terai, T. Yoshikawa, E Yoshikawa, M. Emergency by the Subaru Telescope on asteroid 2024 YR4, which… Read More »2025 ASJ Annual Meeting
The annual EPSC-DPS meeting (held together this year) for Wednesday, Sep. 10 (see also Mon and Tue): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme SB15Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets Exchange of ejected material between the terrestrial planets and the Moon – Sergei… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, III
The observation/publication cycle is getting into a groove: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.02813[Submitted on 4 Sep 2025]Frincke, T. T. Yaginuma, A. Noonan, J. W. et al. Near-Discovery SOAR Photometry of the Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS arxiv.org/abs/2509.03361[Submitted on 4… Read More »3I/ATLAS Tracking