No less than Nature Astronomy has just published (17 September 2025): Egal, A. Vida, D. Colas, F. et al. Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence s41550-025-02659-8 Asteroid 2023 CX1 was discovered in- yes, 2023- and… Read More »Note, Paper: Nut Dropper
The “issue” of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for September is posted. In it: Volume 542, Issue 1Kleshchonok, V. Sierks, H. Güttler, C. Inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during increased activity at perihelion on 2015 August 22–23 Pgs… Read More »Note, Paper: Part Departed, or Hardly?
In Acta Astronautica for October (vol. 235): Broslav, T. Dreyer, C. Sercel, J. Optical mining of carbonaceous chondrite simulants: Testing and lessons learned in asteroid mining research p. 1 .2025.04.033Wang, Y. Zhu, Y. Ding, Y. Research on the ignition characteristics and… Read More »Note, Paper: Light this Rocket, Little Rock edition
It’s September again, time for the 26th AMOS Conference- Sep 16-19, in Wailea, Maui. “AMOS” referred to Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance, an Air Force telescope asset and tracking program located in- you guessed it- Maui, Hawaii. From that… Read More »26th AMOS Conference, 2025
The Planetary and Space Science issue for 1 Oct (vol. 265) includes: Gallot, T. Sedofeito, C. Ginares, A. et al. Seismic wave experiments in granular media with applications to asteroids Art 106153 .2025.106153Barbieri, C. Beolchi, A. Bertini, I. et al. Preparing for… Read More »Note, Paper: We Cover Pre-Recovery
Yes, we’re in the middle of meeting season. A meeting happened a week and a half ago- in my defense, it was all in Chinese, and that’s not one of my languages. It’s also the third annual Tiandu Forum (“International… Read More »Tiandu (Int’l Deep Space) Meeting 2025
Astronomy and Computing is more relevant recently. In Oct’s issue (vol. 53): N. Golovich, T. Steil, A. Geringer-Sameth et al. Survey-wide asteroid discovery with a high-performance computing enabled non-linear digital tracking framework Art 100987 .2025.100987 Synthetic tracking (or track-before-detect, or… Read More »Note, Paper: Supercomputer Survey Consumer
Recently accepted and posted by Nature– yes, Nature. 10 Sep 2025: Iizuka, T. Shibuya, T. Hayakawa, T. et al. Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in Ryugu s41586-025-09483-0 Certain isotopes decay to known, stable, predictable… Read More »Note, Paper: Late Flow on Ryugu. FLOW.
In a few days: the “Cosmic Dust 15” meeting, in Osaka. https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/Welcome.html Yes, dust. You know, the dust that is shed by comets, plus asteroids too (active asteroids, and the ejecta from impacts). The meteors you see in the night… Read More »Cosmic Dust Meeting 2025
The ATLAS papers haven’t stopped- plenty are rushing to get observations in before the comet goes behind the Sun as seen from Earth next month: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.07678[Submitted on 9 Sep 2025]Pérez-Couto, X. Torres, S. Villaver, E. et… Read More »ATLAS Pre-Pre-PRE-Covery