And now, this month’s Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (vol 532, #2, August 2024)… to the extent that they have months anymore, in the digital era: Song, Z. et al. An integrated DEM code for tracing the entire… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly Notices of August
Wow, what a haul in this month’s Astronomy & Astrophysics (August, vol.688). And the month isn’t over, they could squeak in an article or two: Fornasier, S. Dotto, E. Panuzzo, P. et al. Size, albedo, and rotational period of the… Read More »Note, Paper: As & As Asts
I know, I know, yet another ANOTHER meeting… the Advanced Maui Optical/infrared Summit is one of the premiere telescopic/photonic events in the annual calendar: amostech.com AMOS is good, not just because you go visit Maui, but because the “RSO” (resident… Read More »2024 AMOS Conference
Victor Goldschmidt, the geochemist, was serious. Goldschmidt, the geochemistry conference, is 70+ years more serious: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi Ryugu and Bennu, as unaltered, early-Solar-System specimens in hand, tell us of our own history: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Day/2024-08-21 The Origin and Deep Cycles of Life-essential Volatile… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 2)
I know, I know, yet another meeting… apparently we’re making up for the pandemic. But the Tartu Microsatellites Workshop (“Microsatellites and Their Use in Planetary and Astrobiology Research”) is imminent (this Saturday to next Friday): sisu.ut.ee/microsatellites2023/ This workshop starts with… Read More »Tartu Microsatellites workshop
I know, I know, another meeting. But 2025 is an odd-numbered year… it’ll be PDC time again! iaaspace.org/event/9th-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-2025/ This time, it will be in Stellenbosch, South Africa, slightly later than usual – May 5-9, 2005. Southern hemisphere, maybe? In case… Read More »Planetary Defense Conf. 2025 now open
I know, I know, another meeting. But… it’s Goldschmidt time again! conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2024/goldschmidt/2024/meetingapp.cgi The 2024 Goldschmidt conference (in Chicago) is named for Victor Goldschmidt- not just the eminent professor of geochemistry, but one of the very founders of that field. In… Read More »Goldschmidt Conf. 2024 (Pt. 1)
Again, how often does Science magazine have an article that’s not biochem, molecular bio, or field bio? Well, in vol. 385 # 6710, for 15 Aug, here’s one: Fischer-Gödde, M. Tusch, J. Goderis, S. et al. Ruthenium isotopes show the… Read More »Note, Paper: Science!
First, some meta-posting: how often is an article in Nature (or even Nature-family of journals) anything other than biochem, molecular bio, or related chem-tech (including genetics)? Well, here’s an astro-article, even though there’s still a bio angle in it. From… Read More »Note, Paper: The Nature of Ryugu
From this year’s big annual conference of the Meteoritical Society, 2024 (metsoc2024.brussels): Fri Aug 2, 2024 1:30 PM Session: Extraterrestrial Material 2: Curation, Classification, and Historical Importance … 6339 Upgraded Nuclear Resonance Beamline ID14 at ESRF, the Mössbauer Spectroscopy with… Read More »On The Rocks: Meteorite ….wha?