What were the odds: two articles in Nature Astronomy, and they aren’t even high energy/compact objects. In the August “issue” (vol. 8, #8): Edwards, G. H. Keller, C. B. Newton, E. R. An early giant planet instability recorded in asteroidal… Read More »Note, Paper: The Nature of our Solar System
A deeper dive in this month’s Planetary and Space Science (vol. 247 Aug 2024): Soini, A.-J. Kukkonen, I.T. Suhonen, H. et al. 3D porosity, flow, and transport characteristics of t… Art 105915 .2024.105915 We know the carbonaceous chondrite asteroids (including… Read More »Note, Paper: Planet/Space spaces, wet
I didn’t originally want to say much, or anything at all, but… it’s relevant, certainly, and all over the wires (of people who deal in such things). NewSpace startup AstroForge has raised about US$40 million last week, making their capitalization… Read More »AstroForge, and Odin Mission
And now, this month’s Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (vol 532, #2, August 2024)… to the extent that they have months anymore, in the digital era: Song, Z. et al. An integrated DEM code for tracing the entire… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly Notices of August
Wow, what a haul in this month’s Astronomy & Astrophysics (August, vol.688). And the month isn’t over, they could squeak in an article or two: Fornasier, S. Dotto, E. Panuzzo, P. et al. Size, albedo, and rotational period of the… Read More »Note, Paper: As & As Asts
I know, I know, yet another meeting… apparently we’re making up for the pandemic. But the Tartu Microsatellites Workshop (“Microsatellites and Their Use in Planetary and Astrobiology Research”) is imminent (this Saturday to next Friday): sisu.ut.ee/microsatellites2023/ This workshop starts with… Read More »Tartu Microsatellites workshop
I know, I know, another meeting. But 2025 is an odd-numbered year… it’ll be PDC time again! iaaspace.org/event/9th-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-2025/ This time, it will be in Stellenbosch, South Africa, slightly later than usual – May 5-9, 2005. Southern hemisphere, maybe? In case… Read More »Planetary Defense Conf. 2025 now open
Catching up, soooo many meetings. This spring was the Vera Rubin Observatory Targets of Opportunity Workshop. It had been identified and noted years ago that VRO has a survey cadence, to find interesting targets in the sky, catalog them outright,… Read More »Rubin ToO Meeting- Report
…and the first days of the MetSoc annual conference (metsoc2024.brussels), minus Bennu: metsoc2024.brussels/programm/ Mars and Mars Sample Return – Monday, July 29, 8:30 AM Branagan-Harris E. Bowles N. E. King A. J. et al. Investigating the Origin of Mars’ Moon… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – II. First Half
No I didn’t forget. COSPAR (the annual conference, and the org itself) are simply that large. The rest: B1.1 Small Body Science in a New Generation of Surveys, Observatories, Sample Returns, and Planetary DefenseOrganizer: Milam, Stefanie Deputy: Palomba, Ernesto Centaurs,… Read More »2024 COSPAR meeting, Busan- 2