The February Astronomy & Astrophysics (vol. 694) still says “in progress”, despite it being March 1:
de la Fuente Marcos, R. de León, J. Serra-Ricart, M. et al. Basaltic quasi-mini-moon: Characterizing 2024 PT5 with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Two-meter Telescope L5 202452713
Kiss, Cs. Takács, N. Kalup, Cs. E. et al. Three fast-rotating Jovian trojans identified by TESS set new population density limits L17 202453509
Groussin, O. Jorda, L. Attree, N. et al. Thermal environment and erosion of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko A21 202452260
Nucita, A. A. Conversi, L. Verdier, A. et al. Euclid: Detecting Solar System objects in Euclid images and classifying them using Kohonen self-organising maps A116 202451767
Lim, B. Ishiguro, M. Enlargement of depressions on comet 81P/Wild 2: Constraints based on 30-year cometary activity in the inner Solar System A122 202451002
Zain, P. S. Di Sisto, R. P. Gil-Hutton, R. Collisional study of Hilda and quasi-Hilda asteroids A298 202450850
Wargnier, A. Poggiali, G. Yumoto, K. et al. Insights into the origins of Phobos and Deimos based on a spectral comparison with small bodies and Martian materials A304 202453080
Balmino, G. Laurent-Varin, J. Marty, J.-C. Mutual gravitational potential of two solid bodies revisited – Application to Mars and Phobos orbit perturbations in the context of mission MMX A281 202453088
Irureta-Goyena, B. Y. Rachith, E. Hellmich, S. et al. A method for asteroid detection using convolutional neural networks on VST images A49 202452756
In two letters, de la Fuente Marcos et al. and Kiss et al. briefly publish observed phenomena. A few more objects in our Solar System are now known better than merely dots in the sky.
Groussin et al. are still publishing results of the Rosetta mission, a decade onward. The mission failed, in a sense, on the topic of studying and firmly establishing the mechanism(s) of comet activity. Just what, exactly, is going on when comet nuclei experience mass loss, and form comas and tails? Related, Lim et al. do likewise for the Stardust probe at Wild 2. That mission has an excuse: it was a flyby.
Nucita et al. do us a favor: The Euclid mission is now scanning large areas of sky, for dark matter physics. In the course of its sweep, it images asteroids and comets coincidentally. A better question is how to find the small bodies, in all those big images. It takes computer algorithms to sift the pixels.
In the outer Main Belt lies the Hilda asteroid population. These bodies are trapped in resonance with Jupiter, a long, strange gravitational dance. Zain et al. consider the dance, and the odds that less stable, crashing Hildas has an effect on their population, such as longevity and surface effects.
The Martian satellites Phobos and Deimos are about to be studied by the Japanese MMX probe. Therefore, anything we can deduce about the two targets helps us prepare the mission plans, and establish context (perhaps initial hypotheses) regarding them. Wargnier et al. and Balmino et al. attempt tests of some hypotheses; time will tell if they’re confirmed, or rejected. Just a few more years!
Finally, the ESO (European Southern Observatory), mainly operating out of Chile, has the VST (Very large telescope Survey Telescope). Much like Euclid, this telescope was specifically designed with a large field of view, to scan large areas. And much like Euclid, we are combing through its data for asteroids. Irureta-Govena et al. are walking us through a combing procedure of theirs.