Quite the Icarus for August (vol. 436): Barrett, T. J. Bryson, J. F. J. Geraki, K. The source of hydrogen in earth’s building blocks Art. 116588 .2025.116588 Li, Y. Liu, J. Ning, X. et al. Dimension-ratio-based observability analysis of asteroid… Read More »Note, Paper: As The Worlds Turn
…the ‘papers’ (not necessarily recognized) on our interstellar object continue… Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2507.11720[Submitted on 15 Jul 2025]Belyakov, M. Fremling, C. Graham, M. J. et al. Palomar and Apache Point Spectrophotometry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS arxiv.org/abs/2507.12234[Submitted on… Read More »3I/ATLAS Patterns
This week saw the annual UK Space Conference. It’s true that most of this meeting concerned commercial or workforce topics, and therefore Earth orbit flights and related subjects. However: https://www.spaceconference.co.uk/2025/programme Thursday 17 July2:50 PM – 3:30 PM24BK021: Asteroids: The UK… Read More »UK Space Conference 2025
Since we’re talking about an object penetrating our Solar System from other parts of the galaxy, it was inevitable that this would draw wider media coverage. That coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HeTCmtNJSUJul 3, 2025 Scott Manley We Just Discovered The Fastest Interstellar Comet… Read More »3I/ATLAS Patch
And now, the final day of the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ My cull of relevant agenda items: Friday, July 18, 2025 Aqueous Alteration of Chondrites Babrián B. et al.An Experimental View of Progressive Aqueous Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrites [#5048] Lee M.… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 5
…continuing from a prior post (and another): Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2507.07312[Submitted on 9 Jul 2025 (v1). last revised 12 Jul 2025 (this version, v2)]X-SHOOTER Spectrum of Comet C/2025 N1: Insights into a Distant Interstellar VisitorAlvarez-Candal, A. Rizos,… Read More »3I/ATLAS Hat Trick…
(see also Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) My picks (biased, clearly) from the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ Thursday, July 17, 2025 Carbonaceous Chondrites and Chondritic Components 2 Swain S. et al.Mineralogy of C1, C2 and CM-Like Clasts in Chondrite and Achondrite… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 4
Just in at Science magazine: the rush to observe interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-race-study-interstellar-interloper11 Jul 2025 Adam Mann Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper z1ju4jb We have a few brief months to study this example of material from another system. In… Read More »3I/ATLAS Wrangling
This Wednesday will be the midpoint of the weeklong MetSoc meeting, going on right now (see Day 1, Day 2). Today is quite light, ergonomically, but heavy pedagogically. Conel Alexander has spent his career in cosmochemistry, and not just “in… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 3
…continuing on from a previous post… Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arXiv:2507.05318v1 [Submitted on 7 Jul 2025]Hopkins, M. J. Dorsey, R. C. Forbes, J. C. et al. From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population… Read More »Net Paper: ATLAS Again