The journal Aerospace Science and Technology covers everything from little ‘copters to starships. But now and then, given its breadth, something is asteroid-relevant. In the Dec issue (vol. 167): Yang, H. Zhu, S. Ge, D. et al. Impulsive maneuver optimization… Read More »Note, Paper: Landing Commanding Understanding
Wow, what an Astronomy Journal (AJ) for Dec (vol. 170 #6): Willacy, K. Majumdar, L. Bonev, B. et al. The Interstellar Heritage of Comets Art 312 ae0caeHou, X. Tan, P. Liu, X. et al. Influence of Planetary Flyby Events on… Read More »Note, Paper: Pix by Pix, Fly by Fly…
Please excuse the time lag, we had a holiday: Tue, 25 Nov Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112 Trigo-Rodríguez, J. M. Gritsevich, M. Blum, J. Spectrophotometric evidence for a metal-bearing, carbonaceous, and pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Wed, 26 Novwww.arxiv.org/abs/2511.19467… Read More »3I Volatiles Refined
Wow, what an Astronomy & Astrophysics for Nov. (vol. 703): Ortiz, J. L. Morales, N. Sicardy, B. et al. A high geometric albedo and small size for the Haumea cluster member (24835) 1995 SM55 determined from a stellar occultation and… Read More »Note, Paper: AaAnksgiving!
The journal Space Science Reviews goes buffet-style. Now up (2025, vol. 221): Noll, K. S. Levison, H. F. Marchi, S. The Lucy Mission: First to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids- Editorial Art. 119 s11214-025-01252-9 There’s a Lucy-themed special issue of SpaceSciRev… to… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Lucy (Review…)
No surprise: ESA’s Ministerial Council approved (officially…) the RAMSES mission. While meeting this week (26-27 Nov… US holiday), the European Space Agency’s Council of Ministers officiated Agency matters. RAMSES is now on track to rendezvous with Apophis in ~2029, partly… Read More »RAMSES Has Rubber Stamp
More papers from Planetary Science Journal (2025, vol. 6): M. Darby Dyar, Breitenfeld, L. B. Lane, M. D. et al. Spectroscopy of the Hamburg Meteorite, Michigan H4 240 ae0a4fBair, A. N. Schleicher, D. G. Comprehensive Analyses of the Strongly Carbon-chain… Read More »Note, Paper: Seeing Pieces
More reports on our extrasolar boulder: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.16247[Submitted on 20 Nov 2025]Ahuja, G. Ganesh, S. Dynamical simulation of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Using Newton’s laws (plus a little of Kepler’s), with the path of the comet… Read More »ATLAS Hindustan-Tracking
Posted to Astronomers’ Telegram last week, two more short reports: ATel #17503, www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17503 Bolin, B. Wong, I. Lemaux, B. et al. Gemini pre-perihelion detection of CN/C3/C2 gas emission and dust fans in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 20 Nov 2025; 02:37 UTATel #17502; www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17502Ganesh,… Read More »3I/ATLAS Bi-‘Gram
The Nov Aerospace Science and Technology (vol. 166) includes: Jiang, X. Zhang, J. Lu, X. Joint design, safety margin, and ground experiments of an underactuated asteroid lander Art. 110630 .2025.110630Guo, Y. Wen, T. Zeng, X. Energy dissipation mechanism of particle… Read More »Note, Paper: Asteroid Landing Understanding