Starting tomorrow: the 3rd Texas Area Planetary Science (TAPS) Meeting https://sites.google.com/view/tapsmeeting/home , October 23-24, UTSA, San Antonio Once again, my winnowing of the program, per the patch of this blog: https://sites.google.com/view/tapsmeeting/meeting-program Detailed Conference Schedule Poster Session 1Schmitz et al., From 25… Read More »Texas Area Planetary Science Meeting
In lesser news: NewSpace startup Fleet Space announced that their payload- a science instrument- will join the ApophisExL mission to the eponymous asteroid in 2029. www.fleetspace.com/newsroom/fleet-space-targets-apophis-for-off-world-exploration-missionSeptember 23, 2025Fleet Space Targets Apophis For Off-World Exploration Mission The ApophisExL mission is a… Read More »Got It On Apophis Mission (Fleet Space)
How did I (almost) miss this one. An entire issue of Elements has the theme of sample return: Elements, October 2025- vol. 21, #5 -, From the Editors p. 316 .21.5.316Barnes, J. J. Davidson, J. To See a World in… Read More »Sample Return Special Issue of Elements
Just up on Space Science Reviews site: Schönbächler, M. Bouvier, A. Kita, N. T. et al. Initial Conditions of Planet Formation: Time Constraints from Small Bodies and the Lifetime of Reservoirs in the Solar Protoplaneta… Art 97 s11214-025-01216-z I’ve said… Read More »Space Science Reviews… Solar System Birth
Now posted, the Meteoritics & Planetary Science October (vol. 60 #10) issue: Rezes, D. Gyollai, I. Biri, S. et al. Comparison of three proton irradiated meteorite samples to better understand the solar wind-based space weathering Pgs 2297 maps.70038Suttle, M. D.… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock Blotter Waters
No less than Nature (actually Nature Astronomy, still within the Nature family) states: -, Big realities for small bodies 1407 s41550-025-02701-9 Couldn’t have put it better myself. This is an editorial introduction to the October issue (vol. 9), in which… Read More »“Big Realities for Small Bodies”
The issue of New Astronomy for December (vol. 121) includes: Borodin, V. I. Bubenchikov, M. A. Bubenchikov, A. M. et al. Complex rotations of the asteroid 45 Eugenia Art. 102458 .2025.102458 Binaries: once again, handy to have. The parent asteroid… Read More »Note, Paper: Triple System Blip
The 2025 GSA Connects meeting (Geological Society of America) is next week, Oct 19-22, San Antonio: https://connects.geosociety.org/ Some of my (biased) highlights from the agenda (admittedly, mostly terrestrial as you might guess): Pardee Keynote Symposia…Wednesday, 22 October-Impact Cratering and EvolutionP4.… Read More »GSA Connects meeting, 2025
Not only are we characterizing interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, we’re going meta: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2510.13222[Submitted on 16 Oct 2025]Grant, S. R. Jones, G. H. Prospects for the Crossing of Comet 3I/ATLAS’s Ion Tail arxiv.org/abs/2510.11779[Submitted on 15 Oct… Read More »Chance ATLAS Plasma Catch?
A bit light for this blog, but… ESA has posted an explainer video for the RAMSES mission: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/10/Ramses_ESA_s_mission_to_rendezvous_with_asteroid_ApophisRamses: ESA’s mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis 13/10/2025 This week marks three and a half years until the Apophis flyby of Earth;… Read More »See RAMSES Teaser