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
The journal called “Space Science Reviews” means all three. Just now (vol. 221), they have covered the Lucy mission, and covered it quite well: Levison, H.F. Marchi, S. Noll, K.S. et al. NASA’S Lucy Mission to Trojan Asteroids: Unraveling the… Read More »Space Science Reviews Lucy
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
It’s a bit arbitrary with Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Meteors and planets are both relevant to asteroids, but we have to cut things off somewhere. The June issue (vol. 60, #6) includes: Alevy, E. G. Dunn, T. L. Krot, A. N.… Read More »Note, Paper: C-Pieces Detail Read
Time to revisit Planetary Science Journal and its latest papers: Kareta, T. Schambeau, C. A. Firgard, M. et al. Activity-induced Near-infrared Spectral Variability at 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, 2017-2022 119 adce07Diotte, F. Lemelin, M. Doucet, F. R. et al. Laser-induced Breakdown… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan Cat?
Let’s check the New Astronomy issue for October (vol. 119). Yes, they’re up to October already: Wang, S. Yang, Y. Yuan, H. et al. CCD Photometric studies of two Primitive C-type main-belt asteroids: (51) Nemausa and (52) Europa 102391 .2025.102391Vaduvescu,… Read More »Note, Paper: See NEAs Overseas
Generally, the papers in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta are too in-the-weeds and shoegazey for this blog (…or would that be cho-gazey?). Except now- for 1 Jun 2025 (vol.398): Serra, C. Grauby, O. Ferry, D. et al. Experimental investigations of mineral-organic… Read More »Note, Paper: SSSB Seed Detail
Last week was the American Astronomical Society‘s DDA sub-meeting. The DDA (Division on Dynamical Astronomy) covered “particles” (discrete objects, from dust all the way up to individual stars) as they behave under physical laws (mostly gravity, but also impacts, etc.)… Read More »56th AAS-DDA Meeting
A small-body paper made a Nature group journal, Nature Astronomy: Beck, P. Quirico, E. Poch, O. et al. On the darkness of Ryugu and other dark small bodies s41550-025-02557-z The carbonaceous asteroids (those in the C-complex) resemble the carbonaceous-chondrite meteorites.… Read More »Note, Paper: Black of Night