…and the “June” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (the concept of months is pretty arbitrary, almost doesn’t work any more):
vol. 530, #4
Slíz-Balogh, J. Mádai, A. Sári, P. et al. Observation of the L5 Kordylewski dust cloud with… p. 3570 stae1062
vol. 531 #1
Robinson, J. E. Fitzsimmons, A. Young, D. R. et al. Main-belt and Trojan asteroid phase c… p. 304
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Robinson, J. E. Malamud, U. Opitom, C. et al. A link between the size and composition of c… p. 859
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Ghosh, P. Chatterjee, D. Banerjee, A. On the directional nature of celestial object’s fall on… p. 1294 stae1066
Valvano, G. Sfair, R. Winter, O. C. et al. Apophis: may a meteor activity happen on Earth… p. 1585 stae1181
Gray, Z. Bagnulo, S. Boehnhardt H. et al. Imaging polarimetry of comet 67 P/Churyumov… p. 1638 stae1284
vol. 531, #2
Lamy, P. Faury, G. Romeuf, D. et al Detection and characterization of icy cavities on the… p. 2494 stae1290
Garate-Nuñez, L. P. Robotham, A. S. G. Bellstedt, S. et al The Hyper Suprime-Cam exten…p. 2517 stae1292
The Kordylewski Cloud(s?) would(?) be debris from asteroids/comets/transition objects, trapped in the L4 and L5 points of Earth and its satellite. Not a lot, but if it’s there, it’s stardust. Convenient stardust, what can we learn from it?
Robinson (and Fitzsimmons) et al. are doing work to characterize Trojans, versus Main Belt C-/D-/P-type asteroids… and comets, whose nuclei look like C-/D-/P-types. Doing valuable work.
Robinson (and Malamud) et al. are doing work on possible comet subtypes. Do certain processes select out big comets vs. small? And can we use that to say something about what’s in the comet?
Meteor science is data-rich, conclusion-poor. Here’s another selection effect: do the meteors (and hence, dust and micrometeorites) have a selection for certain origins? And can we say something?
…and speaking of meteors: does the close pass of Apophis in 2029 (close enough to cause rock tides on it, when Earth’s gravity pulls on one side like a toupee) mean Apophis meteors later?
Polarimetry is ever-curious; it’s how 3D glasses work nowadays. What does polarized light tell us of Comet “Chury,” especially since we have context from Rosetta? Another D?
…and speaking of Rosetta at Chury, our initial data showed no signs of caverns or karsts in the comet nucleus. Are there such voids inside the body, maybe at the threshold of detection?
Rubin is coming, but… Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is here. The Vera Rubin Observatory is the next-gen SDSS, and HSC is Rubin’s 1.5 gen, or older cousin, or such… a search program with the same aperture, but less field-of-view and net result. HSC, then, should ‘prime’ us for what Rubin will eventually deliver. And can we use that to say something?