Not strictly asteroidal, but some nice background on the Vera Rubin Observatory in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9 #8): Kim, B. Rubin’s Universe 1111 s41550-025-02644-1 Let’s not forget that Rubin has four missions, only one of which is Solar System objects.… Read More »Vera Rubin Understanding
Just posted (not August) in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9? issue?): Barnes, J. J. Nguyen, A. N. Abernethy, F. A. J. et al. The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid s41550-025-02631-6 As befits Nature, this is a quite deep… Read More »Note, Paper: We Read “Seeds”
New coverage by, not Science, but a sister title, Science Advances (this is becoming a pattern). For 22 Aug (vol. 11, #34): Courville, S. W. Castillo-Rogez, J. C. Melwani Daswani, M. et al. Core metamorphism controls the dynamic habitability of… Read More »Note, Paper: Pelt Melt… Cells?
In a week, there will be a (virtual) meeting to handle the handling of results from the GRNS (Gamma Ray/Neutron Spectrometer) instrument on the Psyche mission. The Psyche probe, like Dawn before it, carries a high-energy spectrometer to measure elemental… Read More »Psyche Gamma/Neutron Webinar
Nothing of relevance in Earth and Planetary Science Letters for 1 Sep 2025 (vol. 665) or 15 Sep (vol. 666). Earth is much easier to study than the others.
Cross-disciplinary, indeed. There’s an asteroid article in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets vol. 130, #8: Courville, S. W. Sanderson, H. R. Bierson, C. J. et al. Ferromagmatic Intrusions on Asteroid (16) Psyche May Be Magnetized 2025JE009031 Volcanoes are volcanic, right?… Read More »Note, Paper: Strange Spew Worlds
The journal Acta Astronautica for Sep 2025 (vol. 234) has: Hosonuma, T. Miyabara, T. Ozaki, N. et al. Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY*: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating… Pgs. 117 .2025.04.023Li, Y-H. Lien, W-C. Liu, S-W. Development… Read More »Note, Paper: Whip, Slip, and Flip
The three August “issues” of MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) are now online and complete: Volume 541, Issue 2, August 2025 Attree, N. Gutiérrez, P. Schuckart, C. et al. Constraints on the ejecting-crust activity model on comet… Read More »Note, Paper: Proclivity to Activity
Gotta keep up with Planetary Science Journal. In vol. 6 (2025): Bernstein, G. M. et al. Determinations of Asteroid Masses Using Mutual Encounters Observed in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time 162 ade3deJackson, S. L. et al. Thermal-IR Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: So Say PSJ
There’s a mid-month issue of Icarus, for 15 Sep (vol. 438): Jedicke, R. Alessi, E. M. Wiedner, N. et al. The steady state population of Earth’s minimoons of lunar provenance Art. 116587 .2025.116587Combi, M. R. Mäkinen, T. Bertaux, J.-L. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Mid-Icarus Edition