From the latest MAPS (Meteoritics and Planetary Science), too new to have article numbers yet: Schönbächler, M. Fehr, M. A. Yokoyama, T. et al. Zirconium isotope composition indicates s-process depletion in samples returned from asteroid Ryugu .14279 S-process isotopes are components… Read More »Note, Paper: Where are the Stars?
Some “asteroids” are actually dark comets. I repeat: some asteroids ACTUALLY COMETS: Taylor, A. G. Seligman, D. Z. Holman, M. J. et al. Strong Nongravitational Accelerations and the Potential for Misidentification of Near-Earth Objects a 190 ad85e3 In the Dec… Read More »N, P: When’s an Asteroid Not an Asteroid?
Now an asteroid: the small body temporarily designated 2005 YQ29 is, officially, (335500) Espresso, per the IAU Small-Body Nomenclature Group. That’s right, the drink originating in Italy. Perk up for the workweek!
You didn’t think a mini-moon (Temporarily-Captured Flyby, or TCF) would go by uncommented? I generally stay away from citing arXiv, since it’s basically uncontrolled. But the response time for Mini-Moon 2024 PT5 is too short for a refereed journal, so… Read More »Note, Pa-pre: Mini-moon 2024 PT5
I mention that meteoritics, the study of meteorites in hand, often drills much deeper than astronomy (observing dots in the sky), or actual space flights (limited by mass, volume, power, data, etc.). In this paper (in the Dec. issue of… Read More »Note, Paper: Ge-ex-chimica
In this blog I cite science works, not popular science. But in this case, New Scientist magazine is a level above newsstand pulp, or even Popular Science: Robin George Andrews, Asteroid Adventure. New Scientist, Nov. 9-15 (vol. 264 #3516), page… Read More »Note, Pop-er
Little tidbit in Astronomical Journal, Vol 168, #6 (Dec 2): Ai, G. Yin, J. Cui, L. Learning Gravity Fields of Small Bodies: Self-adaptive Physics-informed Neural Networks a 242 ad7951 The AI hype continues. At this moment, there is no real… Read More »Note, Paper: More AI-steroids?
I missed this year’s Hayabusa Symposium, sorry. I was too tired from European Time to switch to Japan Time. And besides, the European Asteroid Size conference was looking forward, Hayabusa meetings are now (mostly…) looking back. In any case, this… Read More »2024 Hayabusa Symposium
Nothing in Earth and Planetary Science Letters this issue. This is becoming a thing. And I see nothing to mention in AIAA Journal, and the AIAA’s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics either.
Nothing new for anyone who already works in NEOs, but… here’s a nice overview paper. In the latest issue of Remote Sensing (vol. 16, issue 22, November #2): Espartero, F. Cubas, J. Nespral, D. et al. New Astronomical Observatory Design… Read More »Note, Paper: Get A Sense Of All Them