There’s a new paper in Space Science Reviews (vol. 221), and yes, it’s a review: long and detailed. Pätzold, M., Andert, T.P., Cardesín-Moinelo, A. et al. Investigations of the Moon Phobos by Mars Express and Implications Towards Its Origin. art… Read More »Note, Paper: No Fear? More Phobos
The 2025 meeting of the European Geosciences Union has occurred. And yes, there was relevant content in a geophysics conference. Small bodies are subject to physical laws too: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/meetingprogramme Monday, 28 AprilTue, 29 AprWed, 30 AprThu, 01 MayFri, 02 May… Read More »EGU General Assembly 2025
Look, a paper in Journal Of Geophysical Research: Planets (vol. 130, #4) for a change: Maurel, C. Clavé, E. Gattacecca, J. et al. Magnetization of Iron Meteorites up to the Meter in Size as Possible Analogs for Asteroid Psyche 2024JE008810… Read More »Note, Paper: Metal Speculation
It may seem a bit early for the July Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems (vol. 11 issue 3)- it’s ‘in progress’. But considering the next (October) issue is already being served on the site, I’m going to go… Read More »Note, Paper: Water-Rich Print
Early-2025 activity on the mountaintop was largely removing ComCam, and integrating the final LSSTCam onto the telescope. Per my last update, that camera change has happened; time for another post. As observing is getting closer and closer, so too will… Read More »Vera Rubin Update (LATE-April 2025)
Time for this month’s Astronomy and Astrophysics (April, vol. 696): Jo, H. Ishiguro, M. Richardson, D. C. et al. The surface dynamics and geophysical environment of asteroid (3200) Phaethon A34 202453408 Moreno, F. Jehin, E. Dust shells and dark linear… Read More »Note, Paper: A and A Shapes
Always interesting to see ideas make Nature (or a Nature-family journal): Park, R. S. Ermakov, A. I. Konopliv, A. S. et al. A small core in Vesta inferred from Dawn’s observations s41550-025-02533-7 We thought we had the story: Asteroid (4)… Read More »Note, Paper: The Nature of Vesta?
…see first, second, and third posts… The COIAS program (centered around the Subaru Telescope and its HSC instrument) aims to discover asteroids swept up by the wide field of the HSC. That it does, certainly: the effort has a few… Read More »…Continuing (Comets) COIAS…
Still time to sign up for the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, this 23 – 27 June 2025 at University College Cork Cork, Ireland. Early bird registration ends Monday, 28 April 2025. eas.unige.ch/EAS meeting/program.jsp: Symposium S6 23-24 June 2025 The future… Read More »2025 EAS Meeting, Cork
Articles of note in MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) for April: Volume 538, Issue 2 – Volume 538, Issue 3 Mariblanca-Escalona, I. Lara, L. M. Moreno, F. et al. Activity of comet 7P/Pons–Winnecke during the 2021 apparition… Read More »Note, Paper: Not Blind Curves