No, I did not fly to Japan. Here’s the agenda for the 2025 (and inaugural) JAXA planetary defense meeting, in conjunction with the Japan Spaceguard Association: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/researchers/info/files/2024PDSymp_program.pdf Thursday, February 27th: International session(invited) Apophis 2029: Once-per-Millennium Knowledge Opportunity for the Science… Read More »FY2024 Planetary Defense (Spaceguard) Symposium
Wow, the NEOSM mission is staffing up. Again, from Planetary Exploration Newsletter: NEAR-EARTH OBJECT (NEO) SURVEYOR SURVEY SCIENTISTNASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a planned mission (launch: September 2027) with a goal of finding, identifying, and characterizing potentially hazardous asteroids… Read More »MORE Small-Bod Jobs
Time for the PERC Int’l Symposium on Dust & Parent Bodies 2025 (IDP2025): OBJECTIVE:To share state-of-the-art research on dust delivered to Earth and its parent bodies in a multidisciplinary approach of planetary science and astronomy in light of the DESTINY⁺… Read More »2025 PERC Dust Meeting
Just out from Space Science Reviews: Lodders, K. Bergemann, M. Palme, H. Solar System Elemental Abundances from the Solar Photosphere and CI-Chondrites art. 23 s11214-025-01146-w What’s the Solar System made of? Sounds like a simple question to ask, but a… Read More »Note, Paper: Material-ites
The BBC: kinda big. Therefore, coverage by the BBC is to be taken seriously, both inherently and in its impact on the discourse: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y494xkp3yoRannard, Georgina The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about Not scaremongery at all, and rather… Read More »2024 YR4 will still STILL not kill you
Courtesy of Planetary Exploration News, two job openings: NEAR- EARTH OBJECT (NEO) SURVEYOR ASSISTANT SURVEY SCIENTISTNASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a planned mission (launch: September 2027) with a goal of finding, identifying, and characterizing potentially hazardous asteroids in our… Read More »Small-Bod Jobs
Only one hit in PASP (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) for Feb (vol. 137 #2), but what a paper: Lu, J-Q. Fan, L-L. Cai, M-X. et al. Search Capability for Near-Earth Objects with the Wide-Field Survey Telescope … Read More »Note, Paper: Pacific Deep Dive
One in-scope paper in Planetary and Space Science, vol. 256 (Feb), and none in March: De Keyser, J. Edberg, N. J. T. Henri, P. H. et al. Optimal choice of closest approach distance for a comet flyby: Application to the… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan Sp Plans
Since I mentioned asteroid 2024 YR4, the web coverage (note I didn’t say press coverage) is not encouraging. Not encouraging… about the state of the web. Scaremonger sites are, unfortunately, ready and willing to use scare fodder wherever they can… Read More »No, 2024 YR4 will STILL NOT kill you
February’s “issue” (all-digital) of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (vol. 536) is done, and it’s ‘volatile-rich’: Volume 536, Issue 4, February 2025– Volume 537, Issue 1, February 2025Longobardo, A. Angrisani, M. Palomba, E. Photometry of (162173) Ryugu and… Read More »Note, Paper: Royal Astro-volatile Society