Astronomy & Astrophysics, as the name implies, covers pretty much everything. Current issue, v. 684 April: Yuan, Y. Zhang, C. Li, F. et al. New constraints on Triton’s atmosphere from the 6 October … L13 202348460 Merrill, C. C. Kubas, A. R. Meyer,… Read More »Note, Paper: April Shower
The ASCE’s 19th Earth & Space Conference just happened in Miami, Florida (FIU). The highlights: Broslav, T. Dreyer, C. Sercel, J. Volatile Production Model from Optically Spalled CI/CM Asteroid Sim… 9662 Ellery, A. Trials & Tribulations of Asteroid Mining 8087 Witness… Read More »Earth & Space 2024 Meeting
The June (vol. 219) issue of Acta Astronautica is… impulsive, maybe brutish. Villegas-Prados, D. Cruz, J. Wijnen, M. et al. Emission and performance charaterization of io… p. 97 .224.03.013 Muniyasamy, S. B, S. Verma, V. et al. Periodicity and lifetime… Read More »Note, Paper: Abstract Blast
Since I posted from M&PS, here’s more of April: Burbine, T. H. Greenwood, R. C. Zhang, B. et al. How many Vesta-like bodies existed in … p. 878 14134 Rubin, A. E. Turrin, B. D. Nature and timing of a… Read More »Note, Paper: Meteoritics APR
The April “issue” (part of vol. 529, billed as three issues) of MNRAS (Royal Astronomical Society’s journal) isn’t complete; issue #3 is still in progress. I’ll go ahead and cite the first two: Vol. 529, #2: Sun, S. Shi, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: most Monthly Notices of
The April issue of Astronomical Journal is not so Solar-System-centric as last month’s, but that’s publishing for you. Last month was a bounty, this one’s a breather: K. Tang, A. Pomazan, Maigurova, N. et al. Error Analysis for Rotating-drift-scan Charge-coupled… Read More »Note, Paper: April AJ, yay!
I have neglected the journal Acta Astronautica, despite March (vol. 216) being a good month: Casanova-Álvarez, M. Navarro-Medina, F. Tommasini, D. Feasibility study of a Solar Elect… p. 129 .2024.01.001 Zhang, Z. Yu, M. Ali, M. R. et al. Investigation on… Read More »Note, Paper: Zap!
Coverage of Jupiter Trojan objects by Space Science Reviews (an ongoing Special “Issue”) continues: Emery, J. P. Binzel, R. P. Wong, I. Surface Compositions of Trojan Asteroids a28 01060-7 Mottola, S. Britt, D. T. Brown, M. E. et al. Shapes,… Read More »Note, Paper: March, WITH the Trojans
The March issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics (vol. 683, Mar. 24) is a little light. Two small-body articles are roughly typical of that journal. Galinier, M. Delbo, M. Avdellidou, C. et al. Discovery of the first olivine-dominated A-type… p. L3… Read More »Note, Paper: A & A assay
… to conclude. Besides obvious results on Ryugu/Bennu, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference covered lots of other topics this year. You know, Planetary Science: -The DART mission succeeded, as we saw. An entire session (Tue 8:20 am), Characterization of… Read More »LPSC Meeting 2024, part 3