The agenda for the early-‘25 meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group is now up. I won’t duplicate the whole thing when you can just click a link, but here are the session headings to give you an overview: Tuesday,… Read More »Preview: Jan. 2025 SBAG
For what it’s worth, the December issue of Nature Astronomy is a special one on Ryugu. Of course, we’re in the digital era, so the notion of an “issue” is handwavey- most of the works in it were already put… Read More »Tout, Papers: Special Nat. Astron. Issue
In the AIAA‘s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics for December (vol. 47 #12): Tsukamoto, H. Chung, S-J. Nakka, Y. K. et al. Neural-Rendezvous: Provably Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects p. 2525 1.G007671 Interstellar objects… who doesn’t… Read More »Note, Paper: Guide Out
Nothing in Earth and Planetary Science Letters to blog here, for January (vol. 649). Space is big; big enough to have plenty to write about.
As much as there are ‘monthly issues’ for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, here are the ‘issue(s)’ for December: Volume 535, #2, December 2024 – Volume 535, #3, December 2024Chen, Yue Li, Jian A new multiple-arc model of the… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly, Mechanics Notices
The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doesn’t often handle pristine relics from the dawn of the Solar System- ‘pristine’ implies a distinct lack of geophysics. Yet in Vol. 128, #12: Hartzell, C. M. Zhang, Y. Characterizing the Modulation and Activation-Triggering… Read More »Note, Paper: Not-So-Dark Comets
In the second December issue (Dec. 10, vol. 977, issue #1) of Astrophysical Journal: Morton, E. M. Pickard, H. Wombacher, F. et al. Volatile Element Depletion of Carbonaceous Chondrites – Insights from Mass-dependent Zinc, Cadmium and Tellurium Isotopes Art. 53 … Read More »Note, Paper: Astero-Physical, Indeed
New “issue” of CSN. This one’s re: special issues on the Vera Rubin Telescope/LSST. Both AJ and PSJ will have special issues covering this. Here are the calls for papers: Rubin LSST Solar System Analysis Software Focus Issue- Astronomy Journal… Read More »Cometary Science Newsletter, Dec.
Hard to ‘render’ Planetary Science Journal– the title is less like a print journal, more like a blog. Some recent items from it: Ernst, C. M. Daly, R. T. Fletcher, Z. et al. Calibration and Inflight Performance of DART’s Didymos… Read More »Note, Paper: PSJ Update
The Fall AGU Meeting ended today… and I’m not posting the full program. The American Geophysical Union covers everything from Earth’s core, to other planets, so the meeting is enormous. It’s a challenge not just to attend, but to even… Read More »Fall AGU Meeting 2024