The Fall AGU Meeting ended today… and I’m not posting the full program. The American Geophysical Union covers everything from Earth’s core, to other planets, so the meeting is enormous. It’s a challenge not just to attend, but to even… Read More »Fall AGU Meeting 2024
Catching up on Icarus– the 15 January 2025 issue (vol. 426) is a mid-month ‘issue’: Caldiero, A. Le Maistre, S. Expected constraints on Phobos interior from the MMX gravity and rotation observations Article 116343 .2024.116343Hoffmann, T. Micheli, M. Cano, J-L.… Read More »Note, Paper: Mid-Icarus Digits
It’s been too long since I’ve written on the Vera Rubin Observatory, and there’s progress to be seen- dynamic progress. The glass is on the telescope, and a camera too, but it’s the ComCam (Commissioning Camera), an under-populated version of… Read More »Vera Rubin Obs. Update Dec. 11 2024
There has been little to say from Earth and Planetary Science Letters…until now. Volume 648 (15 December 2024) includes: Nimmo, F. Kleine, T. Morbidelli, A. et al. Mechanisms and timing of carbonaceous chondrite delivery to the Earth Article 119112 .2024.119112 The… Read More »Note, Paper: It’s Raining Met
Advances In Space Research brings the goods this December (volume 74, Issue 11): Abad, A. Elipe, A. Ferreira, A. F. S. Periodic orbits around 216-Kleopatra asteroid modelled by a dipole-segment Pages 5687-5697 .2024.10.017Gu, X. Yamaguchi, K. Inamori, T. Park, J-h.… Read More »Note, Paper: Odd-Orbit Opus
No dead of winter for Icarus. The Icarus issue for Jan. 2025 (vol. 425): McClure, L.T. Emery, J.P. Thomas, C.A. et al. Size-based spectrophotometric analysis of the Polana-Eulalia Complex Article 116322 .2024.116322Lee, K. Fang, Z. Wang, Z. Investigation of the… Read More »Note, Paper: January Carries
It’s here (04 Dec 2024): the SSR writeup of Europa Clipper’s main camera(s). Turtle, E. P. McEwen, A. S. Patterson, G. W. et al. The Europa Imaging System (EIS)Investigation Vol 220, article no. 91, s11214-024-01115-9 I’ve written about Europa Clipper… Read More »Europa-Cam, Reviewed
The Autumn meeting of NASA’s Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) has come and gone. Since the big meeting is Spring, this was mostly updates. And since there was MetSoc, EPSC, and DPS, yet no Mars Sample Return news, updates were minor.
Nothing new in New Astronomy vol. 114 (Jan. 2025) per this blog. That’s newness for you- don’t know which direction ‘new’ will go at any time.
In the Res. Notes. Astron. Astrophys. issue for Dec.: Kokhirova, G. l. Zhang, M. Li, X-G. et al. Near-Earth Asteroids as the Parents of the δ-Cancrid Meteoroid Stream a. 125002 ad8c87 Dark comets are asteroids- nominally- that actually show (metaphorically)… Read More »Note, Paper: Dark Comets Deux