Not news, but ESA’s Hera mission to Didymos/Dimorphos after the DART impact has launched and is on track. Based on good performances from all propulsion systems, mission managers expect to encounter the target asteroids earlier than first planned. Arrival is… Read More »Hera Update, Oct 2025
In the current (4 Oct) issue of New Scientist: www.newscientist.com/article/2498319-nasas-asteroid-deflection-test-had-unexpected-and-puzzling-outcome/Alex Wilkins 1 October 2025 NASA’s asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome As one might expect from New Scientist, this is an accessible take on a scientific work. The… Read More »Dimorphos Debris Motion
The Sep issue (vol. 701) of Astronomy & Astrophysics still says “in progress”, but I’m going ahead: Minker, K. Carry, B. Vachier, F. et al. A dynamical dichotomy in large binary asteroids A42 202554973Hmiddouch, S. Jehin, E. Lippi, M. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Dynam-Activity
Next week: a conference hosted by NOIRLab (National Optical/InfraRed Lab) on our star system… and others: THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN CONTEXT noirlab.edu/science/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025 We are happy to announce the 2025 NOIRLab Science Conference: The Solar System in Context, which will take… Read More »Solar System In Context Meeting
Briefly: there’s a meeting on the Extremely Large Telescope going on right now, the Vienna ELT Science + Simulations Workshop, at the University of Vienna Observatory. https://astarvienna.github.io/websites/ELTWorkshopSept2025.html This is the second Vienna meeting, #2: “Spatial resolution”. (If you aren’t already… Read More »2nd Vienna ELT Meeting
We have another Space Science Reviews meta-mega-paper. In vol. 221, posted 17 Sep 2025: Näsilä, A. Kohout, T. Boselli, M. et al. The Asteroid Spectral Imager (ASPECT) on the Milani CubeSat Art 86 s11214-025-01193-3 The Hera mission to Didymos/Dimorphos is… Read More »Space Science Reviews Milani-ASPECT
Next week: the 6th Binaries in the Solar System (Binaries VI), in Nice, FR 15 to 17 September 2025 https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/ Some highlights (I admit I’m biased here):https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_BAM_1.pdf Monday – 15 SeptemberRachel Cueva Modeling the Dynamical Survivability of Binary Asteroids in… Read More »Binaries In The Solar System Meeting, 2025
More papers in PSJ (Planetary Science Journal), vol. 6 (2025)- they just keep posting: Scully, Jennifer E. C. et al. Leveraging Ceres to Gain Insights into the Candidate Ocean Worlds of Umbriel and Oberon That Orbit Uranus 187 adec97Vinogradoff, Vassilissa… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock-Objects Contexts
The Europlanet-AAS Division for Planetary Science meeting for Friday, Sep. 12 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM10Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions (sample return, analogs, analytical workflow etc.) Low-temperature reflectance spectra of meteorites:… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, V
The meeting for Thursday, Sep. 11 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM8Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces The potential of in-situ THz-spectroscopy to resolve the subsurface structure of Comets – Linus Stoeckli et al.… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, IV