Icarus for March (vol. 446) contains: Oszkiewicz, D. Bartczak, P. Colazo, M. et al. Asteroid phase curve modeling with empirical correction for shape and viewing geometry Art 116886 .2025.116886 Kurosaki, K. Arakawa, M. Numerical simulation of impact cratering and induced… Read More »Note, Paper: Who Will Watch the Splotch(men)
There’s another Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, for 15 Feb (vol. 415): Riches, L. J. Suttle, M. D. Franchi, I. A. et al. Fluid history in the ungrouped C2 Essebi meteorite parent body Pg 146 .2025.12.035Wilson, B. J. K. Nagashima, K.… Read More »Note, Paper: See C-Meteorite Histories
There’s a mid-month Advances In Space Research– 15 February (vol. 77, #4): Zhu, X. Liu, Y. Peng, F. Three-stage homotopy approach for asteroid landing desensitized trajectory optimization initialized via quadratic programming Pgs 5009 .2025.11.117Yuan, W. Deng, H. Gao, S. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Small-Body Stall/Fall Study
In Earth And Planetary Science Letters for 15 Feb (vol. 676), we have: Miller, Martin F. Residual mass-independently fractionated oxygen present in solids accreted during planetesimal formation in the early Solar System: potential evidence from… Art 119717 .2025.119717 Oxygen forms… Read More »Note, Paper: Bound Oxygen Cloud Found?
The Vera Rubin Observatory goes live tonight (in a sense). Shakedown operations with the Vera Rubin ‘scope have been going on for months now, finding the last issues and optimizing the procedures for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.… Read More »Vera Rubin Update (Feb 2026)
Normally, I don’t expect much from Astronomy Journal. February (vol. 171 #2) was a surprise: Fan, X. Zhang, X. Xu, X. et al. Photometric Observations and Analysis of Active Asteroid (62412) 2000 SY178 Art 68 ae2678Cordova Quijano, S. A. Ye,… Read More »Note, Paper: Crack and Track 4-Pack
Good Acta Astronautica for Feb (vol. 239): Buys, M. Hanner, C. Refining asteroid mass uncertainty via volume, and bulk density constraints for optimal flyby mission design Pages 89 .2025.10.070Bull, R. Vavrina, M. A. Lyzhoft, J. et al. Retaking in-flight spacecraft… Read More »Note, Paper: Fly Sci Cite
Just up now from Space Science Reviews (vol. 222): Hegarty, K.P. Kubota, S. Cully, M. et al. The IMAP Observatory Overview Art 16 s11214-026-01272-z No, this isn’t redundant to a previous post. That article was about the IMAP program (including the science… Read More »Space Science Reviews IMAP (the probe)
Kelly Fast, current head of NASA’s PDCO (Planetary Defense Coordination Office), explains IAWN (the International Asteroid Warning Network) in a Nature piece (well, Nature Reviews Physics– a Nature title). https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-00912-7May Chiao, 05 January 2026 Inside the International Asteroid Warning Network… Read More »Nature Interviews Kelly Fast
The James Webb Space Telescope certainly is capable. A better question: given the limited time James Webb has to observe, what should we prioritize, what should be handed off to other (lesser, let’s say) telescopes, and what about all the… Read More »JWST Survey: Small-Body Science