I wanted to leave a break for the holidays, but… this one’s a bit important. Astronomy and Astrophysics Review doesn’t print a lot, but the term “Review” means those papers it does print are substantial and significant. So: Bagnulo, S.… Read More »Pola-Review Paper
In the new issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (vol. 388, Jan 2025): Masuda, Y. Schiller, M. Bizzarro, M. et al. Calcium isotope evidence for the formation of early condensates in the Solar System from unmixed reservoirs with distinct nucleosynthe…… Read More »Note, Paper: Merry Iso-mas
The latest issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Vol 692, Dec 2024) seems to have a protoplanet theme: Zhou, W-H. The binary Yarkovsky effect on the primary asteroid with applications to singly synchronous binary asteroids L2 202452146 Pinilla-Alonso, N. Licandro, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: eArly and hydrAted
Nothing in Planetary and Space Science for January (vol. 255) that we care about here. Don’t worry, plenty of other journals and issues.
Nothing relevant in ApJ (Astrophysical Journal) for 1 Jan 2025. There are three “issues” per month, like MNRAS, so there will be other chances.
The first January issue of Acta Astronautica (vol. 226 part 1) is a good one. Here’s some light reading for your holiday: Iwry, J. Collective action problems in planetary defense p. 25 .05.029Wang, Y. Guan, W. Hu, J. High-fidelity landing… Read More »Note, Paper: Act Fast
The agenda for the early-‘25 meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group is now up. I won’t duplicate the whole thing when you can just click a link, but here are the session headings to give you an overview: Tuesday,… Read More »Preview: Jan. 2025 SBAG
For what it’s worth, the December issue of Nature Astronomy is a special one on Ryugu. Of course, we’re in the digital era, so the notion of an “issue” is handwavey- most of the works in it were already put… Read More »Tout, Papers: Special Nat. Astron. Issue
In the AIAA‘s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics for December (vol. 47 #12): Tsukamoto, H. Chung, S-J. Nakka, Y. K. et al. Neural-Rendezvous: Provably Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects p. 2525 1.G007671 Interstellar objects… who doesn’t… Read More »Note, Paper: Guide Out
Nothing in Earth and Planetary Science Letters to blog here, for January (vol. 649). Space is big; big enough to have plenty to write about.