Happy New Year all. Let’s celebrate with… the February (Vol. 427) Icarus: Williams, Q. A note on the direction of core solidification in asteroids, the iron melting curve, and phase equilibria parameterizations Art 116381 .2024.116381 Solidification of the cores of… Read More »Note, Paper: Keep on the Irons
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
The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doesn’t often handle pristine relics from the dawn of the Solar System- ‘pristine’ implies a distinct lack of geophysics. Yet in Vol. 128, #12: Hartzell, C. M. Zhang, Y. Characterizing the Modulation and Activation-Triggering… Read More »Note, Paper: Not-So-Dark Comets
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
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
I mention that meteoritics, the study of meteorites in hand, often drills much deeper than astronomy (observing dots in the sky), or actual space flights (limited by mass, volume, power, data, etc.). In this paper (in the Dec. issue of… Read More »Note, Paper: Ge-ex-chimica
Little tidbit in Astronomical Journal, Vol 168, #6 (Dec 2): Ai, G. Yin, J. Cui, L. Learning Gravity Fields of Small Bodies: Self-adaptive Physics-informed Neural Networks a 242 ad7951 The AI hype continues. At this moment, there is no real… Read More »Note, Paper: More AI-steroids?
Not immediately applicable, but …soon: in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, November (vol. 136)- Lucas, M. Norris, B. Guyon, O. et al. Visible-light High-contrast Imaging and Polarimetrywith SCExAO/VAMPIRES art. 114504 ad89af The tech of adaptive optics… Read More »Note, Paper: Extreme Subaru
Talk about New Astronomy. In vol. 113 (Dec), we see some details on Aster, the first deep-space probe to come from INPE (the Brazilian space agency)! de Carvalho Assis Goulant, G. Statella, T. Sfair, R. Definition of multispectral camera system… Read More »Note, Paper: Bem-Vindo Brasileiros
Squeaking in the November 1 issue (vol. 384) of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: Beyersdorf-Kuis, U. Ott, U. Trieloff, M. Complex irradiation history of chondrules and matrix- A study of CR2 and some other meteorites p. 65 .09.012 Asteroids (and thus… Read More »Note, Paper: Beyersdorf’s Bodies