This ~month’s Bulletin on Small Bodies Nomenclature from the IAU lists new asteroid name (270588) Laurieanderson. The “Mars crosser” (technically only), formerly 2002 LA6, is now named for musician and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, whose resume makes the rest of… Read More »On The Rocks: Strange Angels
It’s a new month, time for a new Cometary Science Newsletter. This month’s edition mentions the (first) Korean Planetary Conference, this July 22-25 organized by IBS in Daejeon. Hurry, the (free!) registration deadline is soon (submission deadline already passed). July… Read More »Cometarysciencenews May- Anyeonghasimnika!
And now the May 1 Astronomical Journal (vol. 167 #5): Ofek, E. O. Polishook, D. Kushnir, D. et al. Asteroid Collisions: Expected Visibility and Rate a 190 ad2c03 Ding, X. Song, Z-M Wang, C-J et al. Detection of Contact Binary… Read More »Note, Paper: AJ, change-J
Monthly Notices RAS, like Acta Astronautica, comes in three “issues” per “month” (since they’re virtual anyway). Here’s vol. 529, #4: April 2024- Betzler, A. S. Sekiguchi, T. A statistical analysis of over three thousand meteors and their spect… p. 3408… Read More »Note, Paper: Mo. Astr.’s more ash
Can’t forget Icarus, the Solar-System-dedicated journal. Now, From June (v. 415): Tang, Y. Lauretta, D. S. Ballouz, R. L. et al. Characterization of a mass movement site in Ben… a 116056 .2024.116056Smirnov, E. A. A comparative analysis of machine learning… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus (2)
Icarus is a reliable “source” (a Solar-System-dedicated journal). First, some stragglers from mid-May (v. 414) I missed: Emery, J. P. Wong, I. Brunetto, R. et al. A tale of 3 dwarf planets: Ices an organics on Se… a 116017 .2024.116017… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus (1)
Astronomy & Astrophysics, as the name implies, covers pretty much everything. Current issue, v. 684 April: Yuan, Y. Zhang, C. Li, F. et al. New constraints on Triton’s atmosphere from the 6 October … L13 202348460 Merrill, C. C. Kubas, A. R. Meyer,… Read More »Note, Paper: April Shower
Topical (or would that be subdural?) work in the May (v. 372) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: Fowler, S. J. Sherman, D. M. Brodholt, J. P. et al. Mineral-water reactions in Earth’s mantle: Predictions from Born theory and … p. 111… Read More »Aqu-al-ways (Float paper)
No papers of small-body interest in the “April” Space Science Reviews (vol. 220). Don’t worry, the pipeline is quite full via other titles.
The European Geophysical Union held their annual meeting, in Vienna, At. You may ask what a “geophysical union” has to do with this site. Since Earth accreted from asteroids, geophysics has, oh… 99.99% to do with an asteroid site. Geochemistry… Read More »EGU24 Meeting