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
Two arXiv papers I had reported on previously have been updated. Nothing Earth-shattering, but: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2507.02757v3[Submitted on 3 Jul 2025 (v1), last revised 24 Jul 2025 (this version, v3)]Seligman, D. Z. Micheli, M. Farnocchia, D.… Read More »3I/ATLAS Rehash
Space Science Reviews, vol. 221 (yes, that SpaceSciRev) covers the Hera flight to Didymos: Michel, P. Küppers, M. Fitzsimmons, A. et al. The Hera Space Mission in the Context of Small Near-Earth Asteroid Missions in the Past, Present and Future … Read More »Space Science Reviews Hera
Blogworthy two ways: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409[Submitted on 17 Jul 2025]Chandler, C. O. Bernardinelli, P. H. Jurić, M. et al, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) The Rubin Observatory is so… Read More »Vera Rubin Upfront (3I)
There’s a collection in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science lately (vol. 12): Vernazza, P. Jorda, L. Tardivel, S. et al. Surface science on Phobos with the navigation cameras of the MMX IDEFIX rover 46 s40645-025-00708-4Yokota, S. Matsuoka, A. Murata,… Read More »Note, Paper: Mars Moons eXposition
Quite the Icarus for August (vol. 436): Barrett, T. J. Bryson, J. F. J. Geraki, K. The source of hydrogen in earth’s building blocks Art. 116588 .2025.116588 Li, Y. Liu, J. Ning, X. et al. Dimension-ratio-based observability analysis of asteroid… Read More »Note, Paper: As The Worlds Turn
Since we’re talking about an object penetrating our Solar System from other parts of the galaxy, it was inevitable that this would draw wider media coverage. That coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HeTCmtNJSUJul 3, 2025 Scott Manley We Just Discovered The Fastest Interstellar Comet… Read More »3I/ATLAS Patch
…continuing from a prior post (and another): Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2507.07312[Submitted on 9 Jul 2025 (v1). last revised 12 Jul 2025 (this version, v2)]X-SHOOTER Spectrum of Comet C/2025 N1: Insights into a Distant Interstellar VisitorAlvarez-Candal, A. Rizos,… Read More »3I/ATLAS Hat Trick…
(see also Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) My picks (biased, clearly) from the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ Thursday, July 17, 2025 Carbonaceous Chondrites and Chondritic Components 2 Swain S. et al.Mineralogy of C1, C2 and CM-Like Clasts in Chondrite and Achondrite… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 4
Just in at Science magazine: the rush to observe interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-race-study-interstellar-interloper11 Jul 2025 Adam Mann Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper z1ju4jb We have a few brief months to study this example of material from another system. In… Read More »3I/ATLAS Wrangling