The Rubin Observatory Community Workshop 2025 continues, all week. Its program: https://project.lsst.org/meetings/rubin2025/program/agenda (see also Pt. 1) The observatory and project staff (not all on the mountaintop, or even Chile + US) are gathering for a head-to-head on the program and… Read More »Rubin Community Workshop 2025- Pt. 2
This Wednesday will be the midpoint of the weeklong MetSoc meeting, going on right now (see Day 1, Day 2). Today is quite light, ergonomically, but heavy pedagogically. Conel Alexander has spent his career in cosmochemistry, and not just “in… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 3
…continuing on from a previous post… Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arXiv:2507.05318v1 [Submitted on 7 Jul 2025]Hopkins, M. J. Dorsey, R. C. Forbes, J. C. et al. From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population… Read More »Net Paper: ATLAS Again
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
I don’t like to give arXiv.org a free pass, since it doesn’t work to the same standards as a peer-reviewed journal. But interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is moving fast, too fast for the independent review process to function. So if we… Read More »Net Paper: 3I/ATLAS Traffic
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 official and it’s named. The object, provisionally designated A11pl3Z, showed ‘fuzziness’ (nebulosity, likely from activity) and was then given the comet designation C/2025 N1. Official discovery credit goes to the ATLAS network, Chile site (Rio Hurtado)- hence, the third designation.… Read More »Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
See also: Day 1 The 33rd meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group continues. This is a somewhat shorter SBAG meeting than usual. Given the upheaval of January/February, and the budget/regulatory risk, funding could not be confidently assigned for Early… Read More »Summer 2025 SBAG Meeting, Day 2
There’s a June Cometary Science Newsletter. In short: TU Braunschweig is seeking a student/researcher for active asteroids. The Technical University of that north German town wants an additional member, full-time, for their small-body group. Have a look.