Note, Paper: A-Deeper Look

I spoke too soon on the April (vol. 167 #4) Astronomical Journal. It was in progress, still some more articles to come. Here are the rest:

Proudfoot, B. C. N. Ragozzine, D. A. Thatcher, M. L. et al. Beyond Point Masses. II. Non… a 144 ad26f0
Navarro-Meza, S. Trilling, D. E. Mommert, M. et al. Taxonomy of Subkilometer Near-Ea… a 163 ad23d0
Cheng, I. Woods, T. E. Côté, P. et al. FORECASTOR. I. Finding Optics Requirements an… a 178 ad2987

Plenty of people are doing small-body search, to the point that follow-up is falling behind. One such characterization telescope is the 1.5m Mexican RATIR system. It is doing initial color bands, the first step to classifying e. g., S-complex vs. C-complex versus miscellaneous. In the future, the Hubble Space Telescope will eventually reach its end, while James Webb is not a true replacement. The James Webb Space Telescope cannot do green/blue bands, or even yellow (the bulk of the optical spectrum). And forget ultraviolet. This leaves a gap: the Canadian Space Agency, already having MOST/NEOSSat to its credit, is planning CASTOR, a Hubble successor/JWST complement. Between RATIR and its kin, plus CASTOR/UltraSat, we will (knock wood) have a full complement to bring onto a threatening/interesting asteroid.