In Advances in Space Research, 1 Nov (vol. 76, #9): Chai, J. Mei, J. Gong, Y. et al. Analysis of a conceptual multi-node flexible small body lander: Bounce suppression and active control Pgs 5471 .2025.08.008 Again, landing on an asteroid is,… Read More »Note, Paper: Philae Astray, No Way
Today, in Space Science Reviews (vol. 221): Bannister, M., Pfalzner, S., Pearce, T. et al. The Origins & Reservoirs of Exocomets 90 s11214-025-01219-w Coming on the heels of the Solar System in Context meeting (noirlab.edu/science/events/websites/solar-system-in-context-2025), we have a ‘comets in… Read More »Space Science Reviews Exocomets
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
In Acta Astronautica for October (vol. 235): Broslav, T. Dreyer, C. Sercel, J. Optical mining of carbonaceous chondrite simulants: Testing and lessons learned in asteroid mining research p. 1 .2025.04.033Wang, Y. Zhu, Y. Ding, Y. Research on the ignition characteristics and… Read More »Note, Paper: Light this Rocket, Little Rock edition
The LSST@Europe7 meeting will be this Sep 15-19, 2025, Poznań, Poland. What’s the business of Europe in a NSF–DOE telescope, you say? Explicitly, the UK and France will (are?) contribute supercomputer cycles to the analysis effort- the petabytes of analysis… Read More »LSST@Europe7 Meeting (Vera Rubin)
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
It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
New edition of Cometary Science Newsletter for September. One item: announcement for ESA’s Space Science Fellowships. www.cosmos.esa.int/fellowship Postdoc positions now open across the fields of space science, just one of which is Solar System astronomy. Applications due Sep 22. Good… Read More »Cometarysciencenews Sep