I had spoken too soon about the August issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. There was something there, something rather worthy. And here’s September, too: vol. 379 AugYui, H. Urashima, S.-h. Onose, M. et al. Pyrrhotites in asteroid 162173 Ryugu:… Read More »Note, Paper: Mea C. A.
After all those Summer meeting, how about… a Fall meeting! It’s time for EPSC again. The Europlanet Science Congress ’24 is underway in Berlin. https://www.epsc2024.eu/ Programme – browse by day & time EPSC is big. Very big. It’s pretty equivalent… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024
The September edition of Icarus had zip (special issue- Mars). So… here’s September 15 (vol. 420): Troianskyi, V. Godunova, V. Serebryanskiy, A. et al. Optical observations of the potentially hazar… Art 116146 Sicoli, P. Gorelli, R. Martínez, M. J. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus is thick
I didn’t really get a chance to discuss the A&A papers from last week. They were kind of important, both by the purview of this blog, and in general: Liu, Z. Hestroffer, D. Desmars, J. et al. Asteroid (4337) Arecibo:… Read More »Note, Paper: As & As Asts, again…
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