(see also Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) My picks (biased, clearly) from the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ Thursday, July 17, 2025 Carbonaceous Chondrites and Chondritic Components 2 Swain S. et al.Mineralogy of C1, C2 and CM-Like Clasts in Chondrite and Achondrite… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 4
MetSoc 2025 continues (see Day 1). We have another packed schedule, here’s another cull of my more asteroid-relevant items: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Carbonaceous Chondrites and Chondritic Components 1 Patkar A. et al.Invited Presentation: Distribution of Water Concentrations in… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 2
It’s MetSoc time, though slightly early for 2025- the meeting is in the Southern Hemisphere this year, Perth AU. No, I am not flying there. I’ll just have to content myself online. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/Monday, July 14, 2025 Day one, and what… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 1
Look- an article in Nature. Well, a Nature-family journal, Scientific Reports. In vol. 15: Tenuta, S. Evans, K.A. Reddy, S.M. et al. Bio-mediated CN cycling in serpentinites and the origin of life 22452 s41598-025-04161-7 The origin of life is a… Read More »Note, Paper: Serpent’s Kiss
A leaker from JGR:Planets, June (vol. 130 #6): Rossmann, F. M. Johnson, C. L. Bierhaus, E. B. The Meter-Scale Roughness of Asteroid (101955) Bennu From the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter e2024JE008799 2024JE008799 Lasers on probes- they just keep on giving. Nominally, the… Read More »Note, Paper: Bennu Boulder Total
The 2025 edition of the annual Goldschmidt Conference will be held in Prague next week. https://conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0 For starters, Victor Goldschmidt basically founded the modern science of cosmochemistry. He named the element categories- lithophiles, chalcophiles, siderophiles, and atmophiles- we use today… Read More »Goldschmidt 2025
Here’s one out of the blue. In the journal Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation: Wu, Y. Song, Z. Zhang, X. et al. The dynamic corridor of regolith transportation near a spinning-up asteroid 108905 .2025.108905 Particle dynamics has lots of applications- mining,… Read More »Note, Paper: Astr-lanche
The Off Nominal podcast, episode 195, features Dante Lauretta talking OREx with the hosts: https://offnom.com/episodes/195 “Dirtiest Thing in the Cleanroom (with Dante Lauretta)” Have a listen.
How did I miss this one… in Space Science Reviews (vol.221): Nakamura, T. Engrand, C. Zolensky, M. et al. Sample Return Missions: Rosetta Stones Returned from the First Small Bodies in the Solar System 44 s11214-025-002268-4 Yes, Space Science Reviews.… Read More »Note, Paper: Sample Return Science Reviews
The new Meteoritics & Planetary Science (May – volume 60, #5) is now online: Connolly Jr, H. C. Lauretta, D. S. McCoy, T. J. et al. An overview of the petrography and petrology of particles from aggregate sample from asteroid… Read More »Note, Paper: CM On Asteroids