The journal Space Science Reviews goes buffet-style. Now up (2025, vol. 221): Noll, K. S. Levison, H. F. Marchi, S. The Lucy Mission: First to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids- Editorial Art. 119 s11214-025-01252-9 There’s a Lucy-themed special issue of SpaceSciRev… to… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Lucy (Review…)
No surprise: ESA’s Ministerial Council approved (officially…) the RAMSES mission. While meeting this week (26-27 Nov… US holiday), the European Space Agency’s Council of Ministers officiated Agency matters. RAMSES is now on track to rendezvous with Apophis in ~2029, partly… Read More »RAMSES Has Rubber Stamp
More papers from Planetary Science Journal (2025, vol. 6): M. Darby Dyar, Breitenfeld, L. B. Lane, M. D. et al. Spectroscopy of the Hamburg Meteorite, Michigan H4 240 ae0a4fBair, A. N. Schleicher, D. G. Comprehensive Analyses of the Strongly Carbon-chain… Read More »Note, Paper: Seeing Pieces
More reports on our extrasolar boulder: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.16247[Submitted on 20 Nov 2025]Ahuja, G. Ganesh, S. Dynamical simulation of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Using Newton’s laws (plus a little of Kepler’s), with the path of the comet… Read More »ATLAS Hindustan-Tracking
Posted to Astronomers’ Telegram last week, two more short reports: ATel #17503, www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17503 Bolin, B. Wong, I. Lemaux, B. et al. Gemini pre-perihelion detection of CN/C3/C2 gas emission and dust fans in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 20 Nov 2025; 02:37 UTATel #17502; www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17502Ganesh,… Read More »3I/ATLAS Bi-‘Gram
The Nov Aerospace Science and Technology (vol. 166) includes: Jiang, X. Zhang, J. Lu, X. Joint design, safety margin, and ground experiments of an underactuated asteroid lander Art. 110630 .2025.110630Guo, Y. Wen, T. Zeng, X. Energy dissipation mechanism of particle… Read More »Note, Paper: Asteroid Landing Understanding
The Vera Rubin Observatory is built, and preparing to start its Legacy Survey of Space and Time. These preparations, with early trials looking okay, are mainly fine tuning of optical parameters and data processes. But there’s a non-main process: targets… Read More »Vera Rubin Update (Nov)
Now out in New Scientist, vol. 268 #3569: Richard Binzel, 15 November 2025 “We don’t want to keep an asteroid secret, because then no one ever trusts you” p. 38 This week’s interview is with astronomer Richard (Rick) Binzel, well-known… Read More »NEO-Binzel New-Interview
In International Journal of Impact Engineering for November (volume 205): Kurosaki, K. Kurosawa, K. Arakawa, M. Ejection angles during hypervelocity impacts on flat and spherical targets investigated with shock physics modeling Art 105400 .2025.105400 DART! DART is the hypervelocity impact,… Read More »Note, Paper: Impact Back-Calc
We’ve got a new blog, tied to a new journal title. The open-access journal Planetary Research will post its first issue in 2026. Related, the title has just got its blog up and running: https://blog.planetary-research.org/2025/11/14/introducing-the-planetary-research-blog/Introducing: The Planetary Research Blog Of… Read More »New Blog: Planetary Research