…continuing on from a previous post… Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arXiv:2507.05318v1 [Submitted on 7 Jul 2025]Hopkins, M. J. Dorsey, R. C. Forbes, J. C. et al. From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population… Read More »Net Paper: ATLAS Again
Here’s something different. In American Mineralogist (vol. 110): Tomioka, N. Kurosawa, K. Miyake, A. et al. Progressive change in dislocation microstructures in shocked calcite with pressure: Characterization of micrometeoroid bombardment on asteroid Ryugu p. 945 am-2024-9540 Experimental astronomy again. As… Read More »Note, Paper: To Shoot Ryugu
Yes, I know I just posted on new entries from RNAA (Research Notes of the AAS). The newest Notes include a report of the James Webb Space Telescope getting time to spot asteroid 2024 YR4, which was initially tracked to… Read More »Note Note: JWST Studies 2024 YR4
Let’s check on Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta for 15 Mar (vol. 393): Braukmüller, N. Funk, C. Abouchami, W. et al. Moderately volatile elements in chondrites record chondrule formation, two-component mixing and redistribution on parent bod… Page 43 .02.001 Braukmüller et… Read More »Note, Paper: Cosmochim-actually
There’s one paper I’ll point out in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for 1 Mar, vol. 392 (and none for 15 Mar, vol. 393): Bermingham, K. R. Tornabene, H. A. Walker, R. J. et al. The non-carbonaceous nature of Earth’s late-stage accretion p.… Read More »Note, Paper: Geo Wet Cosmo Chondrica
Only one hit in PASP (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) for Feb (vol. 137 #2), but what a paper: Lu, J-Q. Fan, L-L. Cai, M-X. et al. Search Capability for Near-Earth Objects with the Wide-Field Survey Telescope … Read More »Note, Paper: Pacific Deep Dive
One in-scope paper in Planetary and Space Science, vol. 256 (Feb), and none in March: De Keyser, J. Edberg, N. J. T. Henri, P. H. et al. Optimal choice of closest approach distance for a comet flyby: Application to the… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan Sp Plans
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