Just out from the Science media family: Science vol. 390 #6778, December 2025Robin George Andrews, 11 Dec 2025 Planet Protector science.zolm8st Sarah Crespi, Elah Feder, Robin George Andrews 11 Dec 2025 Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with… Read More »NEO Surveyor We Cover
In the Planetary And Space Science December 2025 issue (vol. 269): Gorshanov, D. L. Sokova, I. A. Petrova, S. N. et al. Testing the binarity of asteroid (720) Bohlinia using lightcurve analysis Art 106217 .2025.106217 We think there’s a satellite around… Read More »Note, Paper: Sat Anal Validated?
In Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy for Dec (vol. 137 #6): Knežević, Z. Failures and optimization in computation of asteroid synthetic proper elements 39 s10569-025-10272-0 We track asteroids… oh boy, do we track asteroids. As a matter of routine, we… Read More »Note, Paper: Infinitesimal Planetesimal Decimal?
There’s a mid-month (15 January 2026, vol. 444) Icarus: Rosenbush, V. Kleshchonok, V. Ivanova, O. et al. A comprehensive study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the 2021/2022 apparition. I. Photometry, spectroscopy, mor… Art 116799 .2025.116799Benson, C. I. Scheeres, D. J. The… Read More »Note, Paper: Moving-Object Boogie
Just now on Space Sci Rev, vol. 221 (all of 2025): Hezel, D.C. Palme, H. Zipfel, J. et al. Evolution of the Solar System: Constraints from Meteorites – Editorial Art 125 s11214-025-01254-7 As with the previous editorial, this is more… Read More »Space Sci Rev: Solar Sys. Growth (meta…)
In ApJ (Astrophysical Journal) for Dec 1 2025 (vol. 994, #2): Huang, Z. Hirabayashi, M. Orlando, T. M. Micrometeoroid Impacts: Dual Pathways for Iron Reduction and Oxidation on Lunar and Asteroidal Surfaces 240 ae19e6Madeira, G. Morgado, B. E. Pereira, C. L.… Read More »Note, Paper: Particles Near and Far
Let’s check Icarus for 1 January 2026 (vol. 443): Souza-Feliciano, A. C. Rommel, F. L. Morgado, B. E. et al. Rotational Light Curve, phase, and visible colors of (52246) Donaldjohanson throughout Lucy Mission Flyby Art 116771Hirabayashi, M. Prediction of Apophis’s… Read More »Note, Paper: Of Shapes and Fates
This week will bring us the Galileo at 30 meeting, a retrospective of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Jovian system: https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/special_events/2025_Galileo_at_30.html Monday marks 30 years since the orbit insertion maneuver. Let’s not forget, aside from the Jovian system,… Read More »Happy Gali-versary (Galileo at 30)
The mass-market title Astronomy fell off my radar, sorry, but this time we get a COVER STORY (and more)! In the Dec 2025 issue (vol. 53, #12) is: Hyman, Randall p. 16 How we track near-Earth asteroidsChaple, Glenn p. 36… Read More »Astronomy Asteroids (…again)
New in Space Science Reviews (2025, vol. 221): Tortora, P. Granmiga, E. Lasagni Manghi, R et al. The Radio Science Experiment on Hera, Juventus and Milani Art 124 s11214-025-01253-8 The Hera mission contains the CubeSats Juventus and Milani. The two… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Radio Three Europe