The first January issue of Acta Astronautica (vol. 226 part 1) is a good one. Here’s some light reading for your holiday: Iwry, J. Collective action problems in planetary defense p. 25 .05.029Wang, Y. Guan, W. Hu, J. High-fidelity landing… Read More »Note, Paper: Act Fast
The agenda for the early-‘25 meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group is now up. I won’t duplicate the whole thing when you can just click a link, but here are the session headings to give you an overview: Tuesday,… Read More »Preview: Jan. 2025 SBAG
For what it’s worth, the December issue of Nature Astronomy is a special one on Ryugu. Of course, we’re in the digital era, so the notion of an “issue” is handwavey- most of the works in it were already put… Read More »Tout, Papers: Special Nat. Astron. Issue
In the AIAA‘s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics for December (vol. 47 #12): Tsukamoto, H. Chung, S-J. Nakka, Y. K. et al. Neural-Rendezvous: Provably Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects p. 2525 1.G007671 Interstellar objects… who doesn’t… Read More »Note, Paper: Guide Out
Nothing in Earth and Planetary Science Letters to blog here, for January (vol. 649). Space is big; big enough to have plenty to write about.
As much as there are ‘monthly issues’ for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, here are the ‘issue(s)’ for December: Volume 535, #2, December 2024 – Volume 535, #3, December 2024Chen, Yue Li, Jian A new multiple-arc model of the… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly, Mechanics Notices
The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doesn’t often handle pristine relics from the dawn of the Solar System- ‘pristine’ implies a distinct lack of geophysics. Yet in Vol. 128, #12: Hartzell, C. M. Zhang, Y. Characterizing the Modulation and Activation-Triggering… Read More »Note, Paper: Not-So-Dark Comets
In the second December issue (Dec. 10, vol. 977, issue #1) of Astrophysical Journal: Morton, E. M. Pickard, H. Wombacher, F. et al. Volatile Element Depletion of Carbonaceous Chondrites – Insights from Mass-dependent Zinc, Cadmium and Tellurium Isotopes Art. 53 … Read More »Note, Paper: Astero-Physical, Indeed
New “issue” of CSN. This one’s re: special issues on the Vera Rubin Telescope/LSST. Both AJ and PSJ will have special issues covering this. Here are the calls for papers: Rubin LSST Solar System Analysis Software Focus Issue- Astronomy Journal… Read More »Cometary Science Newsletter, Dec.
Hard to ‘render’ Planetary Science Journal– the title is less like a print journal, more like a blog. Some recent items from it: Ernst, C. M. Daly, R. T. Fletcher, Z. et al. Calibration and Inflight Performance of DART’s Didymos… Read More »Note, Paper: PSJ Update