Now available in JGR-Planets (that’s Journal of Geophysical Research-), for Feb (vol. 131 #2): Chow, I. Brown, P. G. Decameter-Sized Earth Impactors—II: A Bayesian Inference Approach to Meteoroid Ablation Modeling e2025JE009392 2025JE009392 We’re not too worried about the smallest class… Read More »Note, Paper: Bolide Boil Modeled
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
In Earth and Planetary Science Letters for April (vol. 679): Libourel, G. Portail, M. Guigoz, V. et al. Low temperature brine formation by serpentinization on asteroid (162,173) Ryugu Art 119885 .119885 We know water existed in the early Solar System,… Read More »Note, Paper: Ryugu Vieux Pot-Au-Feu
Not breaking news but a bit groundbreaking: in Nature Astronomy: Koga, T. Oba, Y. Takano, Y. et al. A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu s41550-026-02791-z The big news is the discovery of all five… Read More »Note, Paper: Ryugu U-too Goo
https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/callforproposals/ There’s still time to submit observing bids for NASA’s IRTF (infraRed Telescope Facility). The window for the late-2026 semester (2026B) opened on March 1… and closes April 1, 5pm Hawaii Standard Time. As I’ve mentioned, IRTF is one of… Read More »IRTF Late-2026 Call for Proposals
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
More data points on our interstellar comet: www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17719 Bolin, B. Wong I. Abron, L-M. December 2025 Gemini spectroscopic and photometric constraints on the activity and gas contents of 3I/ATLASATel #17719 The Gemini telescopes (that’s right, two of them) are “facility”… Read More »ATLAS Activity/Gas Track Telegram
The Meteoritics & Planetary Science issue for March (vol. 61 #3) is finally up: Dobrică, E. Krot, A. N. Brearley, A. J. Shock metamorphic effects in Itokawa phosphates: A comparison with megaregolith-derived meteorites Pg 351 .70102Seifert, L. B. Erickson, T.… Read More »Note, Paper: Merrillite/Apatite Return Flights Writeup
Breaking news from the arXiv preprint site: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2603.10350Ren, X. Yan, W. Zhao, R. et al. Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Observed from Mars by China’s Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Standard Disclaimer: ArXiv is ArXiv. If you haven’t gathered… Read More »China Flight Sights 3I
It’s finally here. After the first paper in February, the two linked papers are now in the new, next (April) issue of J Astronaut Sci. They’re all part of a special collection (a virtual “issue”), “Navigating Asteroid Impact Hazards: Astronautics… Read More »Note, Paper: Hazard Eval Triad (…and Pals)