I spoke too soon again on Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy for Feb (vol.138 #1). They’re still still going: Fereoli, G. McMahon, J. W. Interior gravity characterization of small celestial bodies using cylindrical harmonics 12 s10569-026-10281-7 As I’ve said before,… Read More »Note, Paper: Gravity Field Peel-Reveal
The site Oort Cloud Report happens to bring up our (upcoming) asteroid champion: https://oortcloudreport.github.io/news/space_article/planet9.html[astrophysics staff], March 19 Vera Rubin Observatory’s Search for Planet Nine If you haven’t already heard, the Vera Rubin telescope will revolutionize sky surveying. Never before will… Read More »Oort Cloud Physicists Root Loud
I don’t say much about asteroid mining, because mining companies don’t work via peer review and can stay in stealth mode for a while. Still: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/a-private-space-company-has-a-radical-new-plan-to-bag-an-asteroid/Eric Berger, March 18 A private space company has a radical new plan to bag… Read More »TransAstra Astero-Plan (…Ars Markup)
There’s a mid-month Advances-in Space Research. For 15 Mar (vol. 77 #6): Grabowski, J. A. Bellome, Felicetti, L. A diversity-based strategy for asteroid tour design Pg 7039 .2026.01.075 Narziev, M. Khujanazarov, H. F. Meteoroid streams and associations based on radar… Read More »Note, Paper: Multi-Rock Clock and Track
It’s time for the 12th cometary dust meeting, 17th – 19th March in Graz, Austria (venue: Space Research Institute): https://www.oeaw.ac.at/iwf/events/dust-workshop “This meeting is the twelfth of a series of workshops dedicated to share, compare and discuss cometary dust studies to… Read More »12th Cometary Dust Meeting
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