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IRTF Call for Proposals

Courtesy of Planetary Science News: NASA INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY OBSERVING PROPOSALS The due date for the 2025B semester (August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026) is Tuesday, April 1, 2025. See our online submission form: https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/applicationForms-php Information on available facility… Read More »IRTF Call for Proposals

56th LPSC (2025): Fri, Day 5

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…and finally, Friday, the last day of this year’s LPSC (see also Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu) https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/technical_program/ Environmental Analogs Detectability of Pore-Filling Ice by Ground-Penetrating Radar for Planetary ISRU at Hekla Volcano, Iceland [#2027] McGlasson R. A. et al.  … Read More »56th LPSC (2025): Fri, Day 5

SPHEREx, PUNCH Up

The launch of the SPHEREx spectrometry mission and PUNCH heliospheric mission, on a single rocket, was successful. All four PUNCHes and SPHEREx deployed from the second stage. SPHEREx, for one, has successfully communicated with the ground; the PUNCH team has… Read More »SPHEREx, PUNCH Up

SPHEREx science, in Science

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The launch of SPHEREX has been pushed back to Tuesday night. For a quick rundown of (one of) the mission’s primary drivers, see this recent article in Science. Of course, the spacecraft and its spectrometer are useful for multiple investigations,… Read More »SPHEREx science, in Science

FY2024 Planetary Defense (Spaceguard) Symposium

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No, I did not fly to Japan. Here’s the agenda for the 2025 (and inaugural) JAXA planetary defense meeting, in conjunction with the Japan Spaceguard Association: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/researchers/info/files/2024PDSymp_program.pdf Thursday, February 27th: International session(invited) Apophis 2029: Once-per-Millennium Knowledge Opportunity for the Science… Read More »FY2024 Planetary Defense (Spaceguard) Symposium

Note, Paper: Material-ites

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Just out from Space Science Reviews: Lodders, K. Bergemann, M. Palme, H.  Solar System Elemental Abundances from the Solar Photosphere and CI-Chondrites  art. 23  s11214-025-01146-w What’s the Solar System made of? Sounds like a simple question to ask, but a… Read More »Note, Paper: Material-ites