The 2024 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) meeting on Geoscience and Remote Sensing was held last week. Not to dwell too much (mostly terrestrial), my take: Sun, 7 Jul: Tutorial, HD-9: Mapping minerals with space-based imaging spectroscopy What… Read More »IEEE Remote Sensing Meeting
I don’t post much about Aerospace, a relatively new journal. It’s clear that space is second, aero (i. e., Bernoulli’s Law, not Tsiolkovskiy’s) is first. Still, there’s some space content: Aerospace vol. 11 #6, JunFarina, D. Machrafi, H. Queeckers, P.… Read More »Note, Paper: Space, …aero
Don’t tune out this weekend. Asteroid Day- the International day of awareness, with events and speakers and such, is this Sunday, June 30 (plus Friday, Saturday, etc.): asteroidday.org/event/asteroid-day-2024/ Commemorating the Tunguska impact of 1908, Asteroid Day is now a UN-recognized… Read More »2 days(?) to Asteroid Day
The Space Resources meeting for 2024 happened: SRR :: Program Interesting agenda items: Al Blooshi, Heyam – UAE Space Agency, The UAE’s Emirates Mission to Explore the Asteroid Belt (EMA) Crull, Daynan – Karman+, High Frontier: The First Asteroid Excavation… Read More »Space Resources Roundtable 2024
Apollo Applications Program “asteroid mission” “NASA Halley Mission” [further Shuttle-era cancellations] Piazzi Vesta CRAF (Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby) Clementine (…technically) Clementine II NEAP/NEAF (Near-Earth Asteroid Prospector/Flyby) CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour- yes, I know the case doesn’t work out) SOCCER (initial… Read More »Numquam Obliviscendi
Just last Friday (…happy Friday…): some books from the University of Arizona Press‘ Space Science series are now open access. To an extent, this is great: Asteroids and Asteroids IIThe Galaxy and the Solar SystemMeteorites and the Early Solar SystemResources… Read More »Book Bonus-Gratis
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
A new paper in Meteoritics & Planetary Science brings up a key issue: Michalik, T. Maturilli, A. Cloutis, E. A. et al. 05 April 2024 Laboratory VIS-NIR reflectance measurements of heated Vesta regolith… 14156 Water on Vesta. Water on the… Read More »Moat Paper: Vesta’s Water
Icarus, the Solar System Astronomy journal, has some worthy papers as you might expect. First, a holdover from the “March” Icarus issue (vol. 410- not like months are even relevant any more for a virtual “issue”): Kamada, A. Kuroda, T.… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus and the water