It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
It’s not every day we see a paper in the Open Access Journal of Astrophysics. But this is that day: Guidos, J. Kolanz, L. Lazzati, D. Discrete element simulations of self-gravitating rubble pile collisions: the effects of non-uniform particle size… Read More »Note, Paper: Bit-Sim Bits
Finally, Astronomy and Astrophysics for August (vol. 700): de la Fuente Marcos, R. Alarcon, M. R. Licandro, J. et al. Assessing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Two-meter Twin Telescope L9 202556439Alvarez-Candal, A. Rizos,… Read More »Note, Paper: Straight from the Source
The August issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science (volume 60, Issue 8) is now up. In it: Ivanova, M. A. Teplyakova, S. N. Lorenz, C. A. Origin of the metal in chondritic and achondritic lithologies of the Sierra Gorda 013… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock Shock Procs
Gotta keep up with Planetary Science Journal. In vol. 6 (2025): Bernstein, G. M. et al. Determinations of Asteroid Masses Using Mutual Encounters Observed in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time 162 ade3deJackson, S. L. et al. Thermal-IR Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: So Say PSJ
There’s a mid-month issue of Icarus, for 15 Sep (vol. 438): Jedicke, R. Alessi, E. M. Wiedner, N. et al. The steady state population of Earth’s minimoons of lunar provenance Art. 116587 .2025.116587Combi, M. R. Mäkinen, T. Bertaux, J.-L. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Mid-Icarus Edition
Referencing Taylor et al. 2024: Aug 7 Jonathan O’Callaghan The mysterious ‘dark comets’ prowling our Solar Systemwww.bbc.com/future/article/20250807-a-japanese-spacecraft-is-racing-toward-a-mysterious-dark-comet-to-discover-the-secrets-it-holds The BBC- usually pretty good on technical topics- has a nice writeup of our current state in “dark comets”- asteroids that show nongravitational… Read More »Dark “Comet”… Part Trois
In Icarus for 1 Sep (vol. 437): Pilorz, S. Jenniskens, P. Sun Close-Encounter model of Long-Period Comet and Meteoroid Orbit Stochastic Evolution Art. 116559 .2025.116559 Lu, M. Yi, W. Xue, X. et al. Comparison of meteor shower observed by two… Read More »Note, Paper: N-Rates Papers
It will soon be time for ICAACM– the International Conference on Astronomy, Astrometry, and Celestial Mechanics, on August 9. The agenda, such as it is: www.global-meetings.com/icaacm/papers.html Unfortunately, there’s nothing posted publicly. Next best: the solicitation. (Topics include but are not… Read More »ICAACM (Astronomy, Astrometry, & Celestial Mech.) 2025
This week will see the 16th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, in Boulder, CO (SwRI campus). It will actually overlap the Instrumentation for Planetary Missions Workshop, also in Boulder. As a subfield of geophysics, cratering can be purely theoretical and body-independent.… Read More »Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting 2025