The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference continues into day 3-4, Wednesday and Thursday. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2026/ https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2026/program/ See also: Part I Of the (large) program, here’s my small-body selections: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Differentiated Bodies: Petrology and Cosmochemistry Neumann W. et al. … Read More »LPSC 2026- Part II
Time for the Autumn meeting of the AGU (American Geophysical Union). The big meet is in New Orleans, Dec. 15-19: https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting As you might expect from the name “Geophysical”, it mostly deals with the Earth. It deals with the Earth… Read More »2025-Fall AGU Meeting
The Icarus issue for Dec (vol. 442) brings us: Tusberti, F. Pajola, M. Penasa, L. et al. Lithologies of Dimorphos revealed by boulder morphological classes Art. 116744 .2025.116744Rubino, S. Zambon, F. Brunetto, R. et al. Space weathering on Vesta: Ion bombardment… Read More »Note, Paper: Bombardment Assortment
How did I (almost) miss this one. An entire issue of Elements has the theme of sample return: Elements, October 2025- vol. 21, #5 -, From the Editors p. 316 .21.5.316Barnes, J. J. Davidson, J. To See a World in… Read More »Sample Return Special Issue of Elements
No less than Nature (actually Nature Astronomy, still within the Nature family) states: -, Big realities for small bodies 1407 s41550-025-02701-9 Couldn’t have put it better myself. This is an editorial introduction to the October issue (vol. 9), in which… Read More »“Big Realities for Small Bodies”
This week: a seminar/conference on the returned samples from Ryugu and Bennu, and their implications: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/bennuryugu2025/ Bennu and Ryugu: Samples from the Early Solar System WorkshopOctober 7–9, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston On the (very rich) agenda (www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/bennuryugu2025/technical_program/): Tuesday, October… Read More »Bennu and Ryugu Samples Workshop
Icarus for November (vol. 440) is a bit light: Pan, Q. Li, X. Qiao, D. Analysis of structural failure in fast-spinning small bodies Art 116662 .2025.116662Wei, Z. Zhuang, Y. Zhang, H. et al. Spectral feature variations of low-iron olivine under… Read More »Note, Paper: Grasping the Clasts
Briefly: there’s a meeting on the Extremely Large Telescope going on right now, the Vienna ELT Science + Simulations Workshop, at the University of Vienna Observatory. https://astarvienna.github.io/websites/ELTWorkshopSept2025.html This is the second Vienna meeting, #2: “Spatial resolution”. (If you aren’t already… Read More »2nd Vienna ELT Meeting
September’s Meteoritics & Planetary Science (vol. 60 #9) is now up, plus a supplemental issue: Lee, M. R. Salge, T. Maclaren, I. Magnesium phosphate in the Cold Bokkeveld (CM2) carbonaceous chondrite P. 2017 maps.70018Vacher, L. G. Phan, V. T. H.… Read More »Note, Paper: Phos-Fact Post
The International Journal of Impact Engineering is, of course, within scope of this blog. Individual issues may or may not be, though. But October (vol. 204) is: Westra, A. Damazo, J. Martinez, D. et al. Asteroid deflection: Do multiple impacts… Read More »Note, Paper: Int. Imp. Print Bits