There has been little to say from Earth and Planetary Science Letters…until now. Volume 648 (15 December 2024) includes: Nimmo, F. Kleine, T. Morbidelli, A. et al. Mechanisms and timing of carbonaceous chondrite delivery to the Earth Article 119112 .2024.119112 The… Read More »Note, Paper: It’s Raining Met
Advances In Space Research brings the goods this December (volume 74, Issue 11): Abad, A. Elipe, A. Ferreira, A. F. S. Periodic orbits around 216-Kleopatra asteroid modelled by a dipole-segment Pages 5687-5697 .2024.10.017Gu, X. Yamaguchi, K. Inamori, T. Park, J-h.… Read More »Note, Paper: Odd-Orbit Opus
No dead of winter for Icarus. The Icarus issue for Jan. 2025 (vol. 425): McClure, L.T. Emery, J.P. Thomas, C.A. et al. Size-based spectrophotometric analysis of the Polana-Eulalia Complex Article 116322 .2024.116322Lee, K. Fang, Z. Wang, Z. Investigation of the… Read More »Note, Paper: January Carries
It’s here (04 Dec 2024): the SSR writeup of Europa Clipper’s main camera(s). Turtle, E. P. McEwen, A. S. Patterson, G. W. et al. The Europa Imaging System (EIS)Investigation Vol 220, article no. 91, s11214-024-01115-9 I’ve written about Europa Clipper… Read More »Europa-Cam, Reviewed
In the Res. Notes. Astron. Astrophys. issue for Dec.: Kokhirova, G. l. Zhang, M. Li, X-G. et al. Near-Earth Asteroids as the Parents of the δ-Cancrid Meteoroid Stream a. 125002 ad8c87 Dark comets are asteroids- nominally- that actually show (metaphorically)… Read More »Note, Paper: Dark Comets Deux
I wrote previously (twice) on the Japanese COIAS Program (Come On! Impacting ASteroids) and its connection to the manga/TV show Asteroid in Love (Koisuru Asteroido in Japanese, abbreviated Koi As). Now I write again, courtesy of the IAU’s Working Group, Small… Read More »…COIAS Continued…
In Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 691 Nov. 2024: Fiore, F. Matteucci, F. Spitoni, E. et al. A census of the Sun’s ancestors and their contributions to the Solar System chemical composition A46 202451076Hajduková, M. Stober, G. Barghini, D. et al. No… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Day
Some “asteroids” are actually dark comets. I repeat: some asteroids ACTUALLY COMETS: Taylor, A. G. Seligman, D. Z. Holman, M. J. et al. Strong Nongravitational Accelerations and the Potential for Misidentification of Near-Earth Objects a 190 ad85e3 In the Dec… Read More »N, P: When’s an Asteroid Not an Asteroid?
I mention that meteoritics, the study of meteorites in hand, often drills much deeper than astronomy (observing dots in the sky), or actual space flights (limited by mass, volume, power, data, etc.). In this paper (in the Dec. issue of… Read More »Note, Paper: Ge-ex-chimica
Little tidbit in Astronomical Journal, Vol 168, #6 (Dec 2): Ai, G. Yin, J. Cui, L. Learning Gravity Fields of Small Bodies: Self-adaptive Physics-informed Neural Networks a 242 ad7951 The AI hype continues. At this moment, there is no real… Read More »Note, Paper: More AI-steroids?