The meeting for Thursday, Sep. 11 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM8Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces The potential of in-situ THz-spectroscopy to resolve the subsurface structure of Comets – Linus Stoeckli et al.… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, IV
In a few days, the Astronomical Society of Japan will hold its annual meeting, starting Sep 9: www.asj.or.jp/en/activities/nenkai/info/ Ordinarily, this might fall below one’s radar, including mine… except: Terai, T. Yoshikawa, E Yoshikawa, M. Emergency by the Subaru Telescope on asteroid 2024 YR4, which… Read More »2025 ASJ Annual Meeting
The annual EPSC-DPS meeting (held together this year) for Wednesday, Sep. 10 (see also Mon and Tue): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme SB15Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets Exchange of ejected material between the terrestrial planets and the Moon – Sergei… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, III
The observation/publication cycle is getting into a groove: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.02813[Submitted on 4 Sep 2025]Frincke, T. T. Yaginuma, A. Noonan, J. W. et al. Near-Discovery SOAR Photometry of the Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS arxiv.org/abs/2509.03361[Submitted on 4… Read More »3I/ATLAS Tracking
The latest Research Notes of the AAS is September (vol. 9 #9). In it: Petrov, D. Estimation of the Albedo and Diameter of the Asteroid (16960) 1998 QS52 Using the Polarimetric Method Art 233 ae01a5de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la… Read More »Note, Paper: Two New in View
The joint Europlanet and AAS–DPS meeting, for this Tuesday (see also Day 1): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme Tuesday, 9 Sep SB10 Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres Cosmic dust in the heliosphere- Veerle Sterken CE4 Europlanet General Assembly TP8… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, II
It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
New edition of Cometary Science Newsletter for September. One item: announcement for ESA’s Space Science Fellowships. www.cosmos.esa.int/fellowship Postdoc positions now open across the fields of space science, just one of which is Solar System astronomy. Applications due Sep 22. Good… Read More »Cometarysciencenews Sep
It’s not every day we see a paper in the Open Access Journal of Astrophysics. But this is that day: Guidos, J. Kolanz, L. Lazzati, D. Discrete element simulations of self-gravitating rubble pile collisions: the effects of non-uniform particle size… Read More »Note, Paper: Bit-Sim Bits
The characterization (and digitalization) continues: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.01647[Submitted on 1 Sep 2025]Salazar Manzano, L. E. Lin, H. W. Taylor, A. G. et al. Onset of CN Emission in 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Strong Carbon-Chain Depletion And now,… Read More »3I Cyanide Tri-Described