New coverage by, not Science, but a sister title, Science Advances (this is becoming a pattern). For 22 Aug (vol. 11, #34): Courville, S. W. Castillo-Rogez, J. C. Melwani Daswani, M. et al. Core metamorphism controls the dynamic habitability of… Read More »Note, Paper: Pelt Melt… Cells?
In a week, there will be a (virtual) meeting to handle the handling of results from the GRNS (Gamma Ray/Neutron Spectrometer) instrument on the Psyche mission. The Psyche probe, like Dawn before it, carries a high-energy spectrometer to measure elemental… Read More »Psyche Gamma/Neutron Webinar
Nothing of relevance in Earth and Planetary Science Letters for 1 Sep 2025 (vol. 665) or 15 Sep (vol. 666). Earth is much easier to study than the others.
Cross-disciplinary, indeed. There’s an asteroid article in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets vol. 130, #8: Courville, S. W. Sanderson, H. R. Bierson, C. J. et al. Ferromagmatic Intrusions on Asteroid (16) Psyche May Be Magnetized 2025JE009031 Volcanoes are volcanic, right?… Read More »Note, Paper: Strange Spew Worlds
The journal Acta Astronautica for Sep 2025 (vol. 234) has: Hosonuma, T. Miyabara, T. Ozaki, N. et al. Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY*: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating… Pgs. 117 .2025.04.023Li, Y-H. Lien, W-C. Liu, S-W. Development… Read More »Note, Paper: Whip, Slip, and Flip
The three August “issues” of MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) are now online and complete: Volume 541, Issue 2, August 2025 Attree, N. Gutiérrez, P. Schuckart, C. et al. Constraints on the ejecting-crust activity model on comet… Read More »Note, Paper: Proclivity to Activity
Gotta keep up with Planetary Science Journal. In vol. 6 (2025): Bernstein, G. M. et al. Determinations of Asteroid Masses Using Mutual Encounters Observed in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time 162 ade3deJackson, S. L. et al. Thermal-IR Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: So Say PSJ
There’s a mid-month issue of Icarus, for 15 Sep (vol. 438): Jedicke, R. Alessi, E. M. Wiedner, N. et al. The steady state population of Earth’s minimoons of lunar provenance Art. 116587 .2025.116587Combi, M. R. Mäkinen, T. Bertaux, J.-L. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Mid-Icarus Edition
Not very dramatic news, but worth a post. An observer claims Color Indices of 3I/ATLAS, and a possible Type Identification: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.08829Beniyama, J. Simultaneous visible spectrophotometry of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS with Seimei/TriCCS Using the Seimei… Read More »3I CI; TI?
Referencing Taylor et al. 2024: Aug 7 Jonathan O’Callaghan The mysterious ‘dark comets’ prowling our Solar Systemwww.bbc.com/future/article/20250807-a-japanese-spacecraft-is-racing-toward-a-mysterious-dark-comet-to-discover-the-secrets-it-holds The BBC- usually pretty good on technical topics- has a nice writeup of our current state in “dark comets”- asteroids that show nongravitational… Read More »Dark “Comet”… Part Trois