Apollo Applications Program “asteroid mission” “NASA Halley Mission” [further Shuttle-era cancellations] Piazzi Vesta CRAF (Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby) Clementine (…technically) Clementine II NEAP/NEAF (Near-Earth Asteroid Prospector/Flyby) CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour- yes, I know the case doesn’t work out) SOCCER (initial… Read More »Numquam Obliviscendi
Another quick update, this time on Vera Rubin. Real progress now made, the LSST Cam finished at Stanford. Final prep before shipping to Chile. Also (in Chile) the huge M1/M3 mirror is silvered- bare glass now a mirror. Can’t wait!
Quick Advances in Space Research hit for 15 May (vol. 73, issue 10): Du, Z. Jiang, H. Yang, Y. Deep learning-assisted near-Earth asteroid tracking in astronomical i… p. 5349 .02.048 No shortage of talk (and talk, and talk…) about AI.… Read More »Note, Paper: AdvSpRes’ Adv Res
And now the May 1 Astronomical Journal (vol. 167 #5): Ofek, E. O. Polishook, D. Kushnir, D. et al. Asteroid Collisions: Expected Visibility and Rate a 190 ad2c03 Ding, X. Song, Z-M Wang, C-J et al. Detection of Contact Binary… Read More »Note, Paper: AJ, change-J
Astronomy & Astrophysics, as the name implies, covers pretty much everything. Current issue, v. 684 April: Yuan, Y. Zhang, C. Li, F. et al. New constraints on Triton’s atmosphere from the 6 October … L13 202348460 Merrill, C. C. Kubas, A. R. Meyer,… Read More »Note, Paper: April Shower
The European Geophysical Union held their annual meeting, in Vienna, At. You may ask what a “geophysical union” has to do with this site. Since Earth accreted from asteroids, geophysics has, oh… 99.99% to do with an asteroid site. Geochemistry… Read More »EGU24 Meeting
I spoke too soon on the April (vol. 167 #4) Astronomical Journal. It was in progress, still some more articles to come. Here are the rest: Proudfoot, B. C. N. Ragozzine, D. A. Thatcher, M. L. et al. Beyond Point… Read More »Note, Paper: A-Deeper Look
It’s not every day one spots a long-lost relation. After some tracking duration (called “observing arc” in our field), it appears we’ve found a new (…to us) Mars trojan asteroid. Object 2023 FW14 (provisional designation, sure to change ~2025-26) is… Read More »Big-Little News: 2023 FW14
There has been a recurring theme through the past, oh, 15 years or more of Small-Body science. The April issue (vol. 243) of Planetary and Space Science is like heavy rotation: Kokhirova, G. I. Zhonmuhammadi, A. I. Khamroev, U. H.… Read More »Comet-Asteroids by Shower (Mote Paper)
The April issue of Astronomical Journal is not so Solar-System-centric as last month’s, but that’s publishing for you. Last month was a bounty, this one’s a breather: K. Tang, A. Pomazan, Maigurova, N. et al. Error Analysis for Rotating-drift-scan Charge-coupled… Read More »Note, Paper: April AJ, yay!