A happy Friday to all readers, and a happy “ending” to the Koisuru Asteroido (“Asteroid in Love”, or Koi As for short) anime series (koiastv.com). I wrote about this earlier in the Summer, as part of the COIAS program (or, Come… Read More »V-L Obs Happy Ending
The September edition of Icarus had zip (special issue- Mars). So… here’s September 15 (vol. 420): Troianskyi, V. Godunova, V. Serebryanskiy, A. et al. Optical observations of the potentially hazar… Art 116146 Sicoli, P. Gorelli, R. Martínez, M. J. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus is thick
Forgot PSJ for August, and it was good. In the vol. 5, #8 issue of the Planetary Science Journal: Waller, C. D. Espiritu, R. C. Tinsman, C. et al. Science Product Pipelines and Archive Architecture… p. 177 /ad5959Meyer, A. J.… Read More »Note, Paper: Pla paperS
I didn’t really get a chance to discuss the A&A papers from last week. They were kind of important, both by the purview of this blog, and in general: Liu, Z. Hestroffer, D. Desmars, J. et al. Asteroid (4337) Arecibo:… Read More »Note, Paper: As & As Asts, again…
Bank… or beach? Nothing to report in the month’s (August) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Advances in Space Research, or the Cometary Science Newsletter site. Apparently Cometarysciencenews is on Summer hiatus.
What were the odds: two articles in Nature Astronomy, and they aren’t even high energy/compact objects. In the August “issue” (vol. 8, #8): Edwards, G. H. Keller, C. B. Newton, E. R. An early giant planet instability recorded in asteroidal… Read More »Note, Paper: The Nature of our Solar System
A deeper dive in this month’s Planetary and Space Science (vol. 247 Aug 2024): Soini, A.-J. Kukkonen, I.T. Suhonen, H. et al. 3D porosity, flow, and transport characteristics of t… Art 105915 .2024.105915 We know the carbonaceous chondrite asteroids (including… Read More »Note, Paper: Planet/Space spaces, wet
Last month’s Acta Astronautica covered a lot, so this month (vol. 221 Aug 2024) is not so packed: Bailey, B. Cohen, A. N. Lubin, P. et al. Optical and acoustic ground effects simulations from termi… p. 230 .2024.05.002 The research… Read More »Note, Paper: Acta Aaaah!
No, I haven’t forgotten. When a conference runs to Friday afternoons, Friday afternoon becomes… Friday afternoon, as you may be well aware. Some meetings don’t even bother putting anything serious then. But the Goldschmidt conference does, at least, in 2024:… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 3)
I didn’t originally want to say much, or anything at all, but… it’s relevant, certainly, and all over the wires (of people who deal in such things). NewSpace startup AstroForge has raised about US$40 million last week, making their capitalization… Read More »AstroForge, and Odin Mission