Catching up with AJ (Astronomical Journal)- not a fertile field of silicate bodies. But Solar System astronomy is astronomy, eh: vol. 168 # 1, Jul 2024Moorhead, A. V. Vida, D. Brown, P. G. et al. A Reference Meteor Magnitude for Interco… a 16ad496eSilber, E. A. The Utility… Read More »Note, Paper: Target Insights
The REBOUND meeting is about to happen: hannorein.github.io/rebound24/ “will be a fully remote two-day meeting on the N-body integrator REBOUND, a software package that can integrate the motion of particles under the influence of gravity”. The entire field of dynamical… Read More »REBOUND (dynam/mechanics code) meet 2024
I mentioned the name-that-asteroid contest. (And I mentioned HSC…) But why just (re)name some existing celestial body when you can (co)discover one? web-coias.u-aizu.ac.jp COIAS is short for Come On! Impacting ASteroids. The COIAS program, new this May, is an opportunity… Read More »Virtual (Very large?) Observatory: COIAS asteroid hunt!
…and speaking of Gaia: the EAS (European Astronomical Society) 2024 conference is going on right now. It’s not all that relevant to this blog, since there’s a separate EPSC (Euro Planetary Science Conference), and they take care not to overlap… Read More »2024 EAS meeting (Gaia data)
Last-minute additions had me posting Astronomy and Astrophysics for June (vol. 686) just now. What’s that about Europeans liking comets (including their meteors)? Kipfer, K. A. Ligterink, N. F. W. Rubin, M. et al. Sublimation of volatiles from H2O:CO2 bulk… Read More »Note, Paper: Old-Worl’ Volatiles Follies
…and the “June” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (the concept of months is pretty arbitrary, almost doesn’t work any more): vol. 530, #4 Slíz-Balogh, J. Mádai, A. Sári, P. et al. Observation of the L5 Kordylewski dust cloud… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly Nōt-productive
asteroidday.org See the press release:asteroidday.org/news-updates/asteroid-day-2024-press-release/ Attend (virtually) an event:asteroidday.org/events/map/
Acta Astronautica vol. 220 (Jul 2024) is a good one: Nath, A. Developing algorithms to determine an Asteroid’s physical properties and the succ… p. 62 2024.04.019 Schulc, M. Czakoj, T. Novák, Even et al. Validation of SiO2 neutron cross sections… Read More »Note, Paper: Push it
Don’t tune out this weekend. Asteroid Day- the International day of awareness, with events and speakers and such, is this Sunday, June 30 (plus Friday, Saturday, etc.): asteroidday.org/event/asteroid-day-2024/ Commemorating the Tunguska impact of 1908, Asteroid Day is now a UN-recognized… Read More »2 days(?) to Asteroid Day