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Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs pt. II

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The EU-ESA Workshop on Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects continues. For Tuesday, 11/12/24, we continued phase curves, but after that it was thermal infrared observations and polarimetry: https://indico.esa.int/event/530/contributions/ Absolute magnitudes and photometry from the MPC catalog Peter Vereš (Minor… Read More »Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs pt. II

Note, Paper: A-Robot

And now for a little change of venue. With the obvious exception of “mini-moons” (TCOs and TCFs) asteroid targets are in heliocentric orbits, and often at ranges measured in AUs. Round-trip light time is a few minutes, and it’s unrealistic… Read More »Note, Paper: A-Robot

AAS DPS meeting, four

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It’s the last day of the American Astronomical Society‘s 56th annual DPS Meeting (Division for Planetary Sciences, #DPS2024). Just a little longer now. Here’s the schedule, per my highly biased blog and patch: submissions.mirasmart.com/DPS56/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx 405 – Small Bodies with JWST… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, four

AAS DPS meeting, two

DPS continues. The Division for Planetary Sciences (of the American Astronomical Society) is meeting (the 56th annual one) in Boise. Each division holds sub-meetings; in even-numbered years, DPS is a standalone one. (The Europlanet Sciences Congress, last month, is combined with DPS in odd-numbered years.)… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, two

AAS DPS meeting, one

It’s DPS time! The American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences is now holding their 56th annual meeting (#DPS2024), in Boise, ID. The general AAS meeting (every winter) is just…too…big, so the divisions hold sub-meetings. In odd-numbered years, DPS and… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, one