Acta Astronautica vol. 220 (Jul 2024) is a good one: Nath, A. Developing algorithms to determine an Asteroid’s physical properties and the succ… p. 62 2024.04.019 Schulc, M. Czakoj, T. Novák, Even et al. Validation of SiO2 neutron cross sections… Read More »Note, Paper: Push it
I gave an update on the Vera Rubin Observatory. Undeniably, VRO is (will be…) a game changer. Also noteworthy but less newsworthy: the SPHEREx spacecraft is built: spherex.caltech.edu SPHEREx, for Spectro-PHotometric ices and Epoch of Reionization Explorer, is a NASA… Read More »First Light (Flight) in Sight…
JUICE is running, Europa Clipper is built and in checkout for launch this year… and the small-body community is onboard. Space Science Reviews- no lightweights- had been running a “collection” (articles aligned in theme, but not date like in the… Read More »Note, Paper: E-Ticket!
I held out, but ultimately May is not a rich month for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (vol. 530, #1): Aravind, K. et al. Optical spectroscopy of comets using Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP) p. 393–404 stae666 We don’t… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly, comet-y
Can’t forget Icarus, the Solar-System-dedicated journal. Now, From June (v. 415): Tang, Y. Lauretta, D. S. Ballouz, R. L. et al. Characterization of a mass movement site in Ben… a 116056 .2024.116056Smirnov, E. A. A comparative analysis of machine learning… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus (2)
The April “issue” (part of vol. 529, billed as three issues) of MNRAS (Royal Astronomical Society’s journal) isn’t complete; issue #3 is still in progress. I’ll go ahead and cite the first two: Vol. 529, #2: Sun, S. Shi, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: most Monthly Notices of
That was easy: no new papers (comet or otherwise) in the latest (April) edition of Cometary Science Newsletter.
… to conclude. Besides obvious results on Ryugu/Bennu, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference covered lots of other topics this year. You know, Planetary Science: -The DART mission succeeded, as we saw. An entire session (Tue 8:20 am), Characterization of… Read More »LPSC Meeting 2024, part 3
Wow, what a mother lode in the March issue (vol. 167, #3) of AJ. Transition objects galore: Explicit comets (including high, supervolatile-based activity), Kuiper Belt- and Jupiter Trojan-objects (likely quasi-comets that just don’t warm up enough), and general sky search:… Read More »Note, Paper: Astronomical Journal, pre-Vernal
The journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta suffers from being overextended. After all, its domain is from underground, to interstellar space, and back to pre-Solar Nebula/stellar nucleogenesis. But that doesn’t mean stay away, it means pick and choose the small-body-worthy content.… Read More »Note, Paper: We do Ryugu