The three August “issues” of MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) are now online and complete: Volume 541, Issue 2, August 2025 Attree, N. Gutiérrez, P. Schuckart, C. et al. Constraints on the ejecting-crust activity model on comet… Read More »Note, Paper: Proclivity to Activity
Gotta keep up with Planetary Science Journal. In vol. 6 (2025): Bernstein, G. M. et al. Determinations of Asteroid Masses Using Mutual Encounters Observed in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time 162 ade3deJackson, S. L. et al. Thermal-IR Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: So Say PSJ
There’s a mid-month issue of Icarus, for 15 Sep (vol. 438): Jedicke, R. Alessi, E. M. Wiedner, N. et al. The steady state population of Earth’s minimoons of lunar provenance Art. 116587 .2025.116587Combi, M. R. Mäkinen, T. Bertaux, J.-L. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Mid-Icarus Edition
Referencing Taylor et al. 2024: Aug 7 Jonathan O’Callaghan The mysterious ‘dark comets’ prowling our Solar Systemwww.bbc.com/future/article/20250807-a-japanese-spacecraft-is-racing-toward-a-mysterious-dark-comet-to-discover-the-secrets-it-holds The BBC- usually pretty good on technical topics- has a nice writeup of our current state in “dark comets”- asteroids that show nongravitational… Read More »Dark “Comet”… Part Trois
A new instrument, CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) has just been approved for construction and eventual installation on ESO‘s VLT (Very Large Telescope). Why is this blog-able? One of the goals- an explicit goal- is to search for asteroid water:… Read More »VLT-CUBES Approved
Additional August developments for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Reprising a prior post, the 2025 Rubin Community Workshop has not only happened, but now has presentations posted online: project.lsst.org/excitement-and-collaboration-2025-rubin-community-workshop There are now more details on the status update, keynote presentation,… Read More »Vera Rubin Update (August-B)
The annual Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting came and went, July 27-Aug 1, in Singapore. Forgot to post this, sorry: AOGS2025 SESSION PS19: HYDRATION IN AIRLESS BODIES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The recent decades have brought a revolution in our… Read More »2025 AOGS Meeting
In Icarus for 1 Sep (vol. 437): Pilorz, S. Jenniskens, P. Sun Close-Encounter model of Long-Period Comet and Meteoroid Orbit Stochastic Evolution Art. 116559 .2025.116559 Lu, M. Yi, W. Xue, X. et al. Comparison of meteor shower observed by two… Read More »Note, Paper: N-Rates Papers
Now for the annual Smallsat Conference (smallsat.org), hosted as always by Utah State University, August 11-13. See the overview: https://smallsat.org/conference/schedule/ https://smallsat.org/conference/keynote/https://smallsat.org/conference/flash-talks/https://smallsat.org/conference/posters/ In case you don’t see the connection: Hera is currently flying with the Milani and Juventas 6U CubeSats, to… Read More »Smallsat meeting, 2025
Catching up with Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), not printing every month. In vol. 77 #4, some worthy papers: Miura, H. Yasuda, T. Thermal evolution model from cometary nuclei to asteroids considering contraction associated with ice sublimation… Read More »Note, Paper: Comet-Asteroid Matters