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
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