Just out in this week’s Science Advances (6 Mar 2026, vol. 12 #10): Makadia, R. Chesley, S. R. Herald, D. et al. Direct detection of an asteroid’s heliocentric deflection: The Didymos system after DART .aea4259 Yes, that DART mission struck… Read More »Note, Paper: DART Imparted Larger Charge
Let’s check up on our guest comet, courtesy of arXiv: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2602.23586Medler, K. Hoogendam, W. B. Ashall, C. et al. Contemporaneous Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Pre- and Post-Perihelion[Submitted on 27 Feb… Read More »3I/ATLAS Tracking (Gases and Path Stats)
Advances in Space Research has posted for 1 March (vol. 77, #5): Han, Z-Z. Liu, S-X. Guo, Y-X. The orbital dynamics modeling and simulation of asteroid probe based on variational integrators Pages 5986 .2025.12.074de Almeida Jr., A. K. Santos, L.… Read More »Note, Paper: Turn About is Our Play
Up in Planetary and Space Science for Feb (vol. 271): Garciá, L. N. Macchi, J. A. Shen, P. et al. Evidence of co-temporality between olivine and metal in Tucson Art 106241 .2026.106241Pires, P. Synchronous spin-orbit resonances in earth co-orbital asteroids:… Read More »Note, Paper: Separated in Time… or at Birth?
Just up on the IAU (International Astronomical Union) home page: www.iau.org/IAU/News/Ann2026/Comet-3IAtlas.aspx -, 23 Feb 2026 IAU Combats Misinformation on Interstellar Object Comet 3I/Atlas Not very fast-reacting, those IAU media specialists. Still, it’s quite good and handy to have our highest,… Read More »Astronomers Combatting ATLAS Pap
The quite wordy Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (usually Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron., whew) has published (Feb, vol. 138 #1): Carruba, V. Caritá, G. Aljbaae, S. et al. Co-orbital asteroids of terrestrial planets affected by the von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai mechanism 8 … Read More »Note, Paper: Stable Gravel Travels
The “February” issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society brings us: Volume 545, Issue 4, February 2026 Morate,D. Mahlke,M. Álvarez-Candal,A. et al. JaMONCITO: the Javalambre – Moving Objects New Catalog from Investigations of Time-domain Observations staf2052Buendia, E. Valdés,… Read More »Note, Paper: Now Browsing; Then Dousing?
Icarus for March (vol. 446) contains: Oszkiewicz, D. Bartczak, P. Colazo, M. et al. Asteroid phase curve modeling with empirical correction for shape and viewing geometry Art 116886 .2025.116886 Kurosaki, K. Arakawa, M. Numerical simulation of impact cratering and induced… Read More »Note, Paper: Who Will Watch the Splotch(men)
Wrapping up the “2025” (vol. 6) papers of Planetary Science Journal: Wright, E. L. Masiero, J. Mainzer, A. NEOWISE Data and Thermophysical Modeling of 98943 Torifune (2001 CC21) A 305 ae21dfCombi, M. R. Mäkinen, T. Bertaux, J-L. et al. Activity… Read More »Note, Paper: Space Data Paper Fate
Want a quick explainer of Interstellar Objects (‘Oumuamua, Borisov, and ATLAS)? Look no further: www.snexplores.org/article/interstellar-objects-stars-comicInterstellar objects: Visitors from other stars! Something fast, to the point, and most importantly verifiable. Show this to family, friends, etc. that have questions about the… Read More »Color Interstellar Object Comic