Since I posted from M&PS, here’s more of April: Burbine, T. H. Greenwood, R. C. Zhang, B. et al. How many Vesta-like bodies existed in … p. 878 14134 Rubin, A. E. Turrin, B. D. Nature and timing of a… Read More »Note, Paper: Meteoritics APR
A new paper in Meteoritics & Planetary Science brings up a key issue: Michalik, T. Maturilli, A. Cloutis, E. A. et al. 05 April 2024 Laboratory VIS-NIR reflectance measurements of heated Vesta regolith… 14156 Water on Vesta. Water on the… Read More »Moat Paper: Vesta’s Water
I spoke too soon on the April (vol. 167 #4) Astronomical Journal. It was in progress, still some more articles to come. Here are the rest: Proudfoot, B. C. N. Ragozzine, D. A. Thatcher, M. L. et al. Beyond Point… Read More »Note, Paper: A-Deeper Look
The April “issue” (part of vol. 529, billed as three issues) of MNRAS (Royal Astronomical Society’s journal) isn’t complete; issue #3 is still in progress. I’ll go ahead and cite the first two: Vol. 529, #2: Sun, S. Shi, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: most Monthly Notices of
It’s not every day one spots a long-lost relation. After some tracking duration (called “observing arc” in our field), it appears we’ve found a new (…to us) Mars trojan asteroid. Object 2023 FW14 (provisional designation, sure to change ~2025-26) is… Read More »Big-Little News: 2023 FW14
That, too, was easy: the late-April issue (vol. 218) of Acta Astronautica has no small-body research.
That was easy: no new papers (comet or otherwise) in the latest (April) edition of Cometary Science Newsletter.
…catching up from before, the April issue of AIAA-AA (vol. 217) has just one relevant paper. Just be patient, this is a quite relevant journal in the greater sense. Urrios, J. Pacheco-Ramos, G. Vazquez, R. Optimal planning and guidance for Solar… Read More »Note, Paper: milliNewton News
There has been a recurring theme through the past, oh, 15 years or more of Small-Body science. The April issue (vol. 243) of Planetary and Space Science is like heavy rotation: Kokhirova, G. I. Zhonmuhammadi, A. I. Khamroev, U. H.… Read More »Comet-Asteroids by Shower (Mote Paper)
The April issue of Astronomical Journal is not so Solar-System-centric as last month’s, but that’s publishing for you. Last month was a bounty, this one’s a breather: K. Tang, A. Pomazan, Maigurova, N. et al. Error Analysis for Rotating-drift-scan Charge-coupled… Read More »Note, Paper: April AJ, yay!