It’s a special issue of Advances in Space Research vol. 73, #11, for 1 Jun: Civardi, G. L. Bechini, M. Quirino, M. et al. Generation of fused visible and thermal-infrar… p. 5501 .03.022 Gaias, G. Lovera, M. Extended Kalman filters… Read More »Note, Paper: Adv Sp Res advancing on…
Day 2: – The OSIRIS-REx information was specific, possibly a little too far into the weeds. Lots of slides and speech about curation, from lab equipment and handling procedures to particle-request applications and allocation committees. Granted, the point of OSIRIS-REx,… Read More »…ExMAG Spring 2024, continued…
Deep diving as usual in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, this volume (374): Yamamoto, D. Kawasaki, N. Tachibana, S. et al. An experimental simulation of oxygen isotope exchange reaction between amorphous silicate dust and carbon monoxide gas… p. 93 .04.014 Smith,… Read More »Note, Paper: On the bubble
…before I continue with ExMAG, a recap of AbSciCon. The AGU‘s Astrobiology conference (“AbSciCon” for short) just took place, this time in Providence, Rhode Island. Dworkin, J. P. McLain, H. L. Parker, E. T. et al. A Search for Extraterrestrial… Read More »AbSciCon 2024 meeting
The NASA ExMAG meeting (Extraterrestrial Materials Assessment Group) for Spring, 2024 is going on now. Day 1 status (mostly preliminaries): 1. General statuses. Updates on Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity air test (RIP- not news). Updates on FY24 budget (since March… Read More »ExMAG Spring 2024 meeting
Asteroids: is there anything they can’t do? The NASA Fundamental Physics Workshop was this week, in San Diego. Among the topics was Graham et al.’s concept for asteroids as a physics instrument: Day 2 (Wed), Session 7, 4:25: Fundamental Physics… Read More »Fund.Phys.Wkshp.2024: Ring the Rock Gong!
Planetary and Space Science, May (vol. 244) is about the mineralogy/petrology: Markus, K. Arnold, G. Moroz, L. et al. Laboratory reflectance spectra of enstatite and ol… a 105887 .2024.105887 Bourget, A. Prem, P. Blewett, D. et al. Optical polarization studies of latex beads in aque… a 105891 .2024.105891 Enstatite and… Read More »Note, Paper: PSS petro-spec
Another quick update, this time on Vera Rubin. Real progress now made, the LSST Cam finished at Stanford. Final prep before shipping to Chile. Also (in Chile) the huge M1/M3 mirror is silvered- bare glass now a mirror. Can’t wait!
Just a brief status update. Lots of things happening, like two meetings: the biennial AbSciCon (Astrobiology Science Conference) in Providence, RI as I write this. And starting: a conference on the NEO Surveyor mission, in San Diego (NOT Tucson!): Science… Read More »…midcourse…
Quick Advances in Space Research hit for 15 May (vol. 73, issue 10): Du, Z. Jiang, H. Yang, Y. Deep learning-assisted near-Earth asteroid tracking in astronomical i… p. 5349 .02.048 No shortage of talk (and talk, and talk…) about AI.… Read More »Note, Paper: AdvSpRes’ Adv Res