Days ago, the call went out. The time committee of the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) opened up for early-2025 (that is, semester A) proposals. That means astronomy groups can now submit their applications for IRTF observing. In case you aren’t… Read More »2025A Solicitation: IRTF Time
News: we have spotted a new “Mini-Moon” (Temporarily-Captured Orbiters, or more specifically a Temporarily-Captured Flyby): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad781f de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT5 Captured by Earth from September to November, Res. Notes AAS,… Read More »4th Known TCO (“Mini-Moon”)
Europlanet Conference, continued from last time. https://www.epsc2024.eu/ Programme – browse by day & time SB6 Tuesday, 10 September Surface and interiors of small bodies, meteorite parent bodies, and icy moons: thermal properties, evolution, and structure Convener: Wladimir Neumann | Co-conveners:… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024, Part Beta
I had spoken too soon about the August issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. There was something there, something rather worthy. And here’s September, too: vol. 379 AugYui, H. Urashima, S.-h. Onose, M. et al. Pyrrhotites in asteroid 162173 Ryugu:… Read More »Note, Paper: Mea C. A.
The Issue of Meteoritics And Planetary Science this ‘month’ is a supplemental issue, covering the Meteoritical Society meeting this past Summer. Issue S1 is full of titles, authors, and abstracts, in case my selection didn’t cut it for you. Drive… Read More »…MetSoc 2024 meeting – IV. ‘Save As’
New September edition of the Cometary Science Newsletter (cometarysciencenews.org). Per their policy (see their June issue), there are no abstracts. CSN, or at least this month’s, is job postings in small-body (or related) astronomy.
After all those Summer meeting, how about… a Fall meeting! It’s time for EPSC again. The Europlanet Science Congress ’24 is underway in Berlin. https://www.epsc2024.eu/ Programme – browse by day & time EPSC is big. Very big. It’s pretty equivalent… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024
I want to bring up a new NASA solicitation. No, I don’t want to bring to your attention a solicitation (announcement of opportunity), I want to show just how far the announcement and NASA policies have strayed from outcome-oriented, actionable… Read More »No More Paper- More Launch
The Earth and Planetary Science Letters issue for September, vol. 641, links both Earth and P.S.: Zhang, Y. Qin, L. Mo isotope evidence for evaporation loss of volatiles in CKs, and implications fo… Art 118807 Van Meldeghem, F. Maeda, R.… Read More »Note, Paper: Earth and (microscopic) Planetary Science
A happy Friday to all readers, and a happy “ending” to the Koisuru Asteroido (“Asteroid in Love”, or Koi As for short) anime series (koiastv.com). I wrote about this earlier in the Summer, as part of the COIAS program (or, Come… Read More »V-L Obs Happy Ending