Apollo Applications Program “asteroid mission” “NASA Halley Mission” [further Shuttle-era cancellations] Piazzi Vesta CRAF (Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby) Clementine (…technically) Clementine II NEAP/NEAF (Near-Earth Asteroid Prospector/Flyby) CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour- yes, I know the case doesn’t work out) SOCCER (initial… Read More »Numquam Obliviscendi
Missed some from the June issue of Acta Astronautica (vol. 219). This one features speed, lots of speed: Salotti, J.-M. Can humanity survive to a giant comet impact? p. 603 .03.050 Karlapp, J. Heller, R. Tajmar, M. Ultrafast transfer of low-mass… Read More »Note, Paper: dV
No news to OREx fans, but here’s a good explainer from Dante Lauretta himself, including early sample results: OSIRIS-REx: Revealing Secrets from the Dawn of our Solar System https://airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/events/osiris-rex-revealing-secrets-dawn-our-solar-system Lauretta just gave the Smithsonian’s Exploring Space lecture this Wednesday, May… Read More »OSIRIS-REx Revealing Secrets…
Day 3, end-of-meeting wrapup: – NASA Hayabusa2 news. Ryugu preparations quite thorough, the body also a carbonaceous chondrite and thus also an organic source/contaminant issue. Can’t study Ryugu organics when you’re finding lots of lab/staff residues, can you? – India’s… Read More »…ExMAG Spring 2024, concluded…
Just last Friday (…happy Friday…): some books from the University of Arizona Press‘ Space Science series are now open access. To an extent, this is great: Asteroids and Asteroids IIThe Galaxy and the Solar SystemMeteorites and the Early Solar SystemResources… Read More »Book Bonus-Gratis
It’s a special issue of Advances in Space Research vol. 73, #11, for 1 Jun: Civardi, G. L. Bechini, M. Quirino, M. et al. Generation of fused visible and thermal-infrar… p. 5501 .03.022 Gaias, G. Lovera, M. Extended Kalman filters… Read More »Note, Paper: Adv Sp Res advancing on…
Day 2: – The OSIRIS-REx information was specific, possibly a little too far into the weeds. Lots of slides and speech about curation, from lab equipment and handling procedures to particle-request applications and allocation committees. Granted, the point of OSIRIS-REx,… Read More »…ExMAG Spring 2024, continued…
Deep diving as usual in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, this volume (374): Yamamoto, D. Kawasaki, N. Tachibana, S. et al. An experimental simulation of oxygen isotope exchange reaction between amorphous silicate dust and carbon monoxide gas… p. 93 .04.014 Smith,… Read More »Note, Paper: On the bubble
…before I continue with ExMAG, a recap of AbSciCon. The AGU‘s Astrobiology conference (“AbSciCon” for short) just took place, this time in Providence, Rhode Island. Dworkin, J. P. McLain, H. L. Parker, E. T. et al. A Search for Extraterrestrial… Read More »AbSciCon 2024 meeting
The NASA ExMAG meeting (Extraterrestrial Materials Assessment Group) for Spring, 2024 is going on now. Day 1 status (mostly preliminaries): 1. General statuses. Updates on Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity air test (RIP- not news). Updates on FY24 budget (since March… Read More »ExMAG Spring 2024 meeting