I let this one slip by, apologies. The TNO 2024 meeting happened this June 24-28, in Taipei, Taiwan. There’s a definite but vague link between literal asteroids and Transneptunian objects. That, and I didn’t go to Taiwan. Not even close.… Read More »TNO2024 meeting
The Insight meeting (“Mars Interior and Geophysics after Insight”) was this week (Jul 16-18). Yes, on the Mars Insight lander, which I will discuss on this blog for good reasons. The Mars Insight (Interior, seismic investigation, geophysics, and heat transfer)… Read More »2024 Mars Insight meeting
Interesting engineering (/engineering science) from the AIAA’s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Yes, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics: Negri, R. B. Prado, A. F. B. A. Shallow Encounters’ Impact on Asteroid Deflection Prediction and … p. 1341 /1.G007890Zhao,… Read More »Note, Paper: Good Content and…
And now we sharpen the pencils. In this issue (Jul) of Advances in Space Research: Kikuchi, S. Shirai, K. Ishibashi, K. et al. Simultaneous geometric calibration and orbit-attitude det… p. 899 .04.057 Peña-Asensio, E. Sánchez-Lozano, J. M. Statistical equivalence of metrics… Read More »Note, Paper: Adv (math) in Space Res
The REBOUND meeting is about to happen: hannorein.github.io/rebound24/ “will be a fully remote two-day meeting on the N-body integrator REBOUND, a software package that can integrate the motion of particles under the influence of gravity”. The entire field of dynamical… Read More »REBOUND (dynam/mechanics code) meet 2024
…and speaking of Gaia: the EAS (European Astronomical Society) 2024 conference is going on right now. It’s not all that relevant to this blog, since there’s a separate EPSC (Euro Planetary Science Conference), and they take care not to overlap… Read More »2024 EAS meeting (Gaia data)
Acta Astronautica vol. 220 (Jul 2024) is a good one: Nath, A. Developing algorithms to determine an Asteroid’s physical properties and the succ… p. 62 2024.04.019 Schulc, M. Czakoj, T. Novák, Even et al. Validation of SiO2 neutron cross sections… Read More »Note, Paper: Push it
I covered ApJ, here’s ApJL: …vol. 967, #1, May 20: Kareta, T. Noonan, J. W. Volk, K. et al. Jupiter Co-Orbital Comet P/2023 V6 (PANSTARRS): Orbital… L5 ad3dea Gomez Barrientos, J. de Kleer, K. Ehlmann, B. L. et al. Detection… Read More »Note, Paper: …more than a bit
In the May 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal (vol. 967 #1): S. Liu, W. M. Wood-Vasey, R. Armstrong et al. Testing the LSST Difference Image Analysis Pi… a10 ad3635Huang, Z. Toth, G. Gombosi, T. I. et al. Interaction between a… Read More »Note, Paper: bits and Bits
It’s a special issue of Advances in Space Research vol. 73, #11, for 1 Jun: Civardi, G. L. Bechini, M. Quirino, M. et al. Generation of fused visible and thermal-infrar… p. 5501 .03.022 Gaias, G. Lovera, M. Extended Kalman filters… Read More »Note, Paper: Adv Sp Res advancing on…