It’s September again, time for the 26th AMOS Conference- Sep 16-19, in Wailea, Maui. “AMOS” referred to Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance, an Air Force telescope asset and tracking program located in- you guessed it- Maui, Hawaii. From that… Read More »26th AMOS Conference, 2025
The Planetary and Space Science issue for 1 Oct (vol. 265) includes: Gallot, T. Sedofeito, C. Ginares, A. et al. Seismic wave experiments in granular media with applications to asteroids Art 106153 .2025.106153Barbieri, C. Beolchi, A. Bertini, I. et al. Preparing for… Read More »Note, Paper: We Cover Pre-Recovery
Yes, we’re in the middle of meeting season. A meeting happened a week and a half ago- in my defense, it was all in Chinese, and that’s not one of my languages. It’s also the third annual Tiandu Forum (“International… Read More »Tiandu (Int’l Deep Space) Meeting 2025
Recently accepted and posted by Nature– yes, Nature. 10 Sep 2025: Iizuka, T. Shibuya, T. Hayakawa, T. et al. Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in Ryugu s41586-025-09483-0 Certain isotopes decay to known, stable, predictable… Read More »Note, Paper: Late Flow on Ryugu. FLOW.
The LSST@Europe7 meeting will be this Sep 15-19, 2025, Poznań, Poland. What’s the business of Europe in a NSF–DOE telescope, you say? Explicitly, the UK and France will (are?) contribute supercomputer cycles to the analysis effort- the petabytes of analysis… Read More »LSST@Europe7 Meeting (Vera Rubin)
Next week: the 6th Binaries in the Solar System (Binaries VI), in Nice, FR 15 to 17 September 2025 https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/ Some highlights (I admit I’m biased here):https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_BAM_1.pdf Monday – 15 SeptemberRachel Cueva Modeling the Dynamical Survivability of Binary Asteroids in… Read More »Binaries In The Solar System Meeting, 2025
The Europlanet-AAS Division for Planetary Science meeting for Friday, Sep. 12 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM10Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions (sample return, analogs, analytical workflow etc.) Low-temperature reflectance spectra of meteorites:… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, V
The details on our interstellar friend keep filling in, now that we have tracking over a nonnegligible observing arc: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.05181[Submitted on 5 Sep 2025]Gray, Z. Bagnulo, S. Borisov, G. et al. Extreme Negative Polarisation… Read More »ATLAS Keeps Tabs on ATLAS…
The meeting for Thursday, Sep. 11 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM8Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces The potential of in-situ THz-spectroscopy to resolve the subsurface structure of Comets – Linus Stoeckli et al.… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, IV
In a few days, the Astronomical Society of Japan will hold its annual meeting, starting Sep 9: www.asj.or.jp/en/activities/nenkai/info/ Ordinarily, this might fall below one’s radar, including mine… except: Terai, T. Yoshikawa, E Yoshikawa, M. Emergency by the Subaru Telescope on asteroid 2024 YR4, which… Read More »2025 ASJ Annual Meeting