It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
New edition of Cometary Science Newsletter for September. One item: announcement for ESA’s Space Science Fellowships. www.cosmos.esa.int/fellowship Postdoc positions now open across the fields of space science, just one of which is Solar System astronomy. Applications due Sep 22. Good… Read More »Cometarysciencenews Sep
It’s not every day we see a paper in the Open Access Journal of Astrophysics. But this is that day: Guidos, J. Kolanz, L. Lazzati, D. Discrete element simulations of self-gravitating rubble pile collisions: the effects of non-uniform particle size… Read More »Note, Paper: Bit-Sim Bits
Wow, good issue of Astronomical Journal for Sep (vol. 170 #3): Peña-Asensio, E. Ferrari, F. Meteoroid Stream Identification with HDBSCAN Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm 140 adec8cJewitt, D. Li, J. Jaeger, M. et al. Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-period… Read More »Note, Paper: Hotshot Spots
Came across an article in Space: Science & Technology (a title within the Science family) for 27 Aug 2025 (vol 5): Zhou, Q. Guo, W. Jin, M. et al. Adaptive Brightness Enhancement Algorithm of Small Celestial Bodies Based on Knowledge… Read More »Note, Paper: Gain Range Page
The August issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science (volume 60, Issue 8) is now up. In it: Ivanova, M. A. Teplyakova, S. N. Lorenz, C. A. Origin of the metal in chondritic and achondritic lithologies of the Sierra Gorda 013… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock Shock Procs
In the latest issue (Sep., vol. 25 #9) of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, a Chinese-centric journal hosted by a US site: Tang, Y. Jiang, Y. Zhang, Z. et al. NEA Detection Method with Neural Network in Sidereal Tracking 095003 … Read More »Note, Paper: Wide Net
Just posted (not August) in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9? issue?): Barnes, J. J. Nguyen, A. N. Abernethy, F. A. J. et al. The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid s41550-025-02631-6 As befits Nature, this is a quite deep… Read More »Note, Paper: We Read “Seeds”
New coverage by, not Science, but a sister title, Science Advances (this is becoming a pattern). For 22 Aug (vol. 11, #34): Courville, S. W. Castillo-Rogez, J. C. Melwani Daswani, M. et al. Core metamorphism controls the dynamic habitability of… Read More »Note, Paper: Pelt Melt… Cells?
In a week, there will be a (virtual) meeting to handle the handling of results from the GRNS (Gamma Ray/Neutron Spectrometer) instrument on the Psyche mission. The Psyche probe, like Dawn before it, carries a high-energy spectrometer to measure elemental… Read More »Psyche Gamma/Neutron Webinar