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
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