Advances In Space Research brings the goods this December (volume 74, Issue 11): Abad, A. Elipe, A. Ferreira, A. F. S. Periodic orbits around 216-Kleopatra asteroid modelled by a dipole-segment Pages 5687-5697 .2024.10.017Gu, X. Yamaguchi, K. Inamori, T. Park, J-h.… Read More »Note, Paper: Odd-Orbit Opus
No dead of winter for Icarus. The Icarus issue for Jan. 2025 (vol. 425): McClure, L.T. Emery, J.P. Thomas, C.A. et al. Size-based spectrophotometric analysis of the Polana-Eulalia Complex Article 116322 .2024.116322Lee, K. Fang, Z. Wang, Z. Investigation of the… Read More »Note, Paper: January Carries
It’s here (04 Dec 2024): the SSR writeup of Europa Clipper’s main camera(s). Turtle, E. P. McEwen, A. S. Patterson, G. W. et al. The Europa Imaging System (EIS)Investigation Vol 220, article no. 91, s11214-024-01115-9 I’ve written about Europa Clipper… Read More »Europa-Cam, Reviewed
The Autumn meeting of NASA’s Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) has come and gone. Since the big meeting is Spring, this was mostly updates. And since there was MetSoc, EPSC, and DPS, yet no Mars Sample Return news, updates were minor.
Nothing new in New Astronomy vol. 114 (Jan. 2025) per this blog. That’s newness for you- don’t know which direction ‘new’ will go at any time.
In the Res. Notes. Astron. Astrophys. issue for Dec.: Kokhirova, G. l. Zhang, M. Li, X-G. et al. Near-Earth Asteroids as the Parents of the δ-Cancrid Meteoroid Stream a. 125002 ad8c87 Dark comets are asteroids- nominally- that actually show (metaphorically)… Read More »Note, Paper: Dark Comets Deux
I wrote previously (twice) on the Japanese COIAS Program (Come On! Impacting ASteroids) and its connection to the manga/TV show Asteroid in Love (Koisuru Asteroido in Japanese, abbreviated Koi As). Now I write again, courtesy of the IAU’s Working Group, Small… Read More »…COIAS Continued…
In Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 691 Nov. 2024: Fiore, F. Matteucci, F. Spitoni, E. et al. A census of the Sun’s ancestors and their contributions to the Solar System chemical composition A46 202451076Hajduková, M. Stober, G. Barghini, D. et al. No… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Day
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?