Wow, I underestimated the Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences, just this week. The program is here: https://ifmacao.must.edu.mo/static/resource/IFMACAO_conference_program.pdf At minimum, Alberto Cellino was a keynote speaker. There’s “Origin of the Solar Systemas Seen by A Geochemist” and “Using… Read More »Macau Planetary Science Forum 2025
… see also Part 1 of the Meeting … Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 10:00 AM Mission Updates: Part 110:00 AM Patrick Michel, Hera – ESA10:10 AM Michael Kueppers, Comet Interceptor — ESA10:20 AM Javier Licandro, NEOMIR — ESA10:30 AM Kelsi Singer,… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 2
It’s the New Year, time for another SBAG (Small Bodies Assessment Group) Meeting. Day 1 was largely programmatics: Day 1 Agenda Icebreaker for Early-Career Attendees10:00 AM Lori Feaga Introduction and Logistics 10:05 AM Adrienne Dove UCF Welcome Agency Updates 10:15… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 1
Happy New Year all. Let’s celebrate with… the February (Vol. 427) Icarus: Williams, Q. A note on the direction of core solidification in asteroids, the iron melting curve, and phase equilibria parameterizations Art 116381 .2024.116381 Solidification of the cores of… Read More »Note, Paper: Keep on the Irons
I wanted to leave a break for the holidays, but… this one’s a bit important. Astronomy and Astrophysics Review doesn’t print a lot, but the term “Review” means those papers it does print are substantial and significant. So: Bagnulo, S.… Read More »Pola-Review Paper
In the new issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (vol. 388, Jan 2025): Masuda, Y. Schiller, M. Bizzarro, M. et al. Calcium isotope evidence for the formation of early condensates in the Solar System from unmixed reservoirs with distinct nucleosynthe…… Read More »Note, Paper: Merry Iso-mas
For what it’s worth, the December issue of Nature Astronomy is a special one on Ryugu. Of course, we’re in the digital era, so the notion of an “issue” is handwavey- most of the works in it were already put… Read More »Tout, Papers: Special Nat. Astron. Issue
In the AIAA‘s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics for December (vol. 47 #12): Tsukamoto, H. Chung, S-J. Nakka, Y. K. et al. Neural-Rendezvous: Provably Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects p. 2525 1.G007671 Interstellar objects… who doesn’t… Read More »Note, Paper: Guide Out
As much as there are ‘monthly issues’ for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, here are the ‘issue(s)’ for December: Volume 535, #2, December 2024 – Volume 535, #3, December 2024Chen, Yue Li, Jian A new multiple-arc model of the… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly, Mechanics Notices
The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doesn’t often handle pristine relics from the dawn of the Solar System- ‘pristine’ implies a distinct lack of geophysics. Yet in Vol. 128, #12: Hartzell, C. M. Zhang, Y. Characterizing the Modulation and Activation-Triggering… Read More »Note, Paper: Not-So-Dark Comets