Just announced last week- this year will have two international meetings on planetary defense against impactors. The Japanese space agency (JAXA) is coordinating a meeting, Feb. 27-28. This is in conjunction with the Japan Spaceguard organization, and overlapping (the first… Read More »2025 Planetary Defense Meeting- OTHER Meeting
… see also SBAG Day 1 and Day 2 … And now let’s conclude this writeup of the early-‘25 SBAG (Small Bodies Assessment Group) meeting, the 32nd: Thursday, January 9, 2025 Publishing Updates 10:00 AM Maria Womack Centaurs Book10:10… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 3
The big annual meeting of the AAS is going on as we speak. Because this is the general meeting, it covers too much, compared to the AAS-DPS (Division for Planetary Science) meeting every Autumn. Still, there is some planetary stuff… Read More »245th AAS Meeting
Wow, I underestimated the Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences, just this week. The program is here: https://ifmacao.must.edu.mo/static/resource/IFMACAO_conference_program.pdf At minimum, Alberto Cellino was a keynote speaker. There’s “Origin of the Solar Systemas Seen by A Geochemist” and “Using… Read More »Macau Planetary Science Forum 2025
… see also Part 1 of the Meeting … Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 10:00 AM Mission Updates: Part 110:00 AM Patrick Michel, Hera – ESA10:10 AM Michael Kueppers, Comet Interceptor — ESA10:20 AM Javier Licandro, NEOMIR — ESA10:30 AM Kelsi Singer,… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 2
It’s the New Year, time for another SBAG (Small Bodies Assessment Group) Meeting. Day 1 was largely programmatics: Day 1 Agenda Icebreaker for Early-Career Attendees10:00 AM Lori Feaga Introduction and Logistics 10:05 AM Adrienne Dove UCF Welcome Agency Updates 10:15… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 1
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
I wanted to leave a break for the holidays, but… this one’s a bit important. Astronomy and Astrophysics Review doesn’t print a lot, but the term “Review” means those papers it does print are substantial and significant. So: Bagnulo, S.… Read More »Pola-Review Paper
In the new issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (vol. 388, Jan 2025): Masuda, Y. Schiller, M. Bizzarro, M. et al. Calcium isotope evidence for the formation of early condensates in the Solar System from unmixed reservoirs with distinct nucleosynthe…… Read More »Note, Paper: Merry Iso-mas
The latest issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Vol 692, Dec 2024) seems to have a protoplanet theme: Zhou, W-H. The binary Yarkovsky effect on the primary asteroid with applications to singly synchronous binary asteroids L2 202452146 Pinilla-Alonso, N. Licandro, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: eArly and hydrAted