Still time to sign up for the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, this 23 – 27 June 2025 at University College Cork Cork, Ireland. Early bird registration ends Monday, 28 April 2025. eas.unige.ch/EAS meeting/program.jsp: Symposium S6 23-24 June 2025 The future… Read More »2025 EAS Meeting, Cork
Articles of note in MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) for April: Volume 538, Issue 2 – Volume 538, Issue 3 Mariblanca-Escalona, I. Lara, L. M. Moreno, F. et al. Activity of comet 7P/Pons–Winnecke during the 2021 apparition… Read More »Note, Paper: Not Blind Curves
Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html : May 20-22, 2025Small Sample Handling Workshophttps://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/smallsamplemay2025/West Lafayette, IN There’s plenty of room in the micro- and nano-world. Like Moore’s Law, science and science equipment has advanced to finer and finer resolutions. The amount of wisdom we… Read More »Small Sample Handling Workshop
We have initial data from the Lucy mission, and its Sunday flyby of asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson. We knew it was an elongated asteroid beforehand, and it turns out imagery confirms this (rather than, say, a close binary system, or something… Read More »Lucy Flyby Update 2
That Robin Andrews is a busy writer: April 16, 2025 Robin George Andrews www.newscientist.com/article/2476805-the-race-to-visit-the-asteroid-making-the-closest-pass-by-earth/ Asteroid (99942) Apophis was, a generation ago, calculated to have a slight chance of hitting Earth, in 2029. At under a kilometer in size, it would… Read More »Apophis Mission Grist
As of Monday, April 21, the Lucy probe has reported it survived and is functioning. Data from asteroid Donaldjohanson now transmitting.
Some things in AJ (Astronomical Journal) for May (vol. 169 #5): Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný, D. Broz, M. et al. Orbital and Absolute Magnitude Distribution of Hilda Population 242 adbe7bHora, J. L. Allen, A. J. Trilling, D. E. et al. Infrared… Read More »Note, Paper: Taking Faint Game
An ‘inhuman’-interest piece in MIT Technology Review: April 14, 2025 Robin George Andrews Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114306/space-nuclear-explosion-asteroid-protection-research/ Don’t accuse me of fearmongering just because I include planetary defense coverage in the wider small-body… Read More »Hammer of the ‘Don
In light of the Lucy mission’s asteroid flyby tomorrow (1:51 PM EDT), it’s time for another batch of papers from Planetary Science Journal. In volume 6: Runyon, K. D. Durda, D. D. Klein, V. et al. Methods for Experimental Planetary… Read More »Note, Paper: Pre-Flyby Write
Two papers to report in the May issue of New Astronomy (vol. 116): Agbogidi, B. R. Vincent, A. E. Afere, B. A. E. et al. Equilibrium points in the perturbed rotating mass dipole system with oblateness art. 102344 .2024.102344Wang, N.… Read More »Note, Paper: Slew Astronomy