It’s time. The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) is holding its even-year telescope conference (this time, Yokohama, Japan): spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/astronomical-telescopes-and-instrumentation Did I say IAU GA was big? SPIE is bigger. The IAU is topical, covering astronomy. SPIE as a… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… whew
The IAU General Assembly is the big meeting. THE meeting. This year, it’s in Cape Town, South Africa. Something as big as “Astronomical Union” might deserve better than a blog post, but here’s one post, to start off with. It’s… Read More »IAUGA 2024- Cape Town
The tech media has gotten hold of this, but I’ll add my own context. The International Planetary Probe Workshop was held this week, hosted by Langley Research Center, in nearby Williamsburg, VA. The press makes much of OSIRIS-REx being an… Read More »IPPW ’24- Planetary Probes
I gave an update on the Vera Rubin Observatory. Undeniably, VRO is (will be…) a game changer. Also noteworthy but less newsworthy: the SPHEREx spacecraft is built: spherex.caltech.edu SPHEREx, for Spectro-PHotometric ices and Epoch of Reionization Explorer, is a NASA… Read More »First Light (Flight) in Sight…
Planetary Science Journal is very new. Yet, it’s highly pertinent to this blog, as the title indicates (truth in advertizing!). This paper in PSJ vol. 5 is, umm, important: Sanchez, J. A. Reddy, V. Thirouin, A. The Population of Small… Read More »Note, Paper: PSJ P. S. N.s
Quite the interesting Planetary and Space Science for July (volume 246): Alvarez, S. R. Sosa Oyarzabal, A. Comet P/2003 T12 (SOHO): A possible fragment o… art. 105902.2024.105902Gramigna E. Lasagni Manghi R. Zannoni M. et al. The Hera Radio Science Experi… art.… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan A
The Space Resources meeting for 2024 happened: SRR :: Program Interesting agenda items: Al Blooshi, Heyam – UAE Space Agency, The UAE’s Emirates Mission to Explore the Asteroid Belt (EMA) Crull, Daynan – Karman+, High Frontier: The First Asteroid Excavation… Read More »Space Resources Roundtable 2024
JUICE is running, Europa Clipper is built and in checkout for launch this year… and the small-body community is onboard. Space Science Reviews- no lightweights- had been running a “collection” (articles aligned in theme, but not date like in the… Read More »Note, Paper: E-Ticket!
Published in the Meteoritics & Planetary Science issue for June (vol. 59 #6): Jonkers, G. van Maldeghem, F. van Ginneken, M. et al. Oxygen isotope compositions of fr… p. 1236 maps.14145 MacLennan, E. M. Emery, J. P. McClure, L. M.… Read More »Note, Paper: Met bits
A contest is afoot to re-name (469219) Kamoʻoalewa (itself formerly 2016 HO3). Begun by the WNYC radio/podcast show Radiolab, now joined by the IAU (International Astronomical Union- the body that can actually name things), this contest is to find a… Read More »(469219) Kamooalewa rocks…