Let’s check up on our guest comet, courtesy of arXiv: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2602.23586Medler, K. Hoogendam, W. B. Ashall, C. et al. Contemporaneous Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Pre- and Post-Perihelion[Submitted on 27 Feb… Read More »3I/ATLAS Tracking (Gases and Path Stats)
The March Acta Astronautica (vol. 240) brings us: Szabó, N. O. Sárneczky, K. Kiss, L. L. et al. NEO and imminent impactor discoveries from Hungary: Recent results and lessons learnt Pg 1 .2025.11.055Coates, A. Wheeler, L. Dotson, J. Risk knowledge… Read More »Note, Paper: Detecting, Inspecting… Deflecting?
Mustn’t let our interstellar guest slip away unnoticed: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2602.21586Hartman, J. D. Bakos, G. Á. Jordan, A. et al. HATPI Pre-Perihelion Time-series Photometry of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS[Submitted on 25 Feb 2026] Standard Disclaimer: The… Read More »HATPI ATLAS Chance Gathering
Published by JGR-Planets (vol. 131 #2): Sato, M. Kimura, Y. Hatakeyama, T. et al. Characteristics of Natural Remanence Records in Fine‐Grained Particles Returned From Asteroid Ryugu 2025JE009265 The question of asteroid magnetic fields is a constant, unanswered one. Differentiated, iron… Read More »Note, Paper: Asteroid Magnet Framboids?
Advances in Space Research has posted for 1 March (vol. 77, #5): Han, Z-Z. Liu, S-X. Guo, Y-X. The orbital dynamics modeling and simulation of asteroid probe based on variational integrators Pages 5986 .2025.12.074de Almeida Jr., A. K. Santos, L.… Read More »Note, Paper: Turn About is Our Play
Let’s stay current with Planetary Science Journal (all articles 2026, vol. 7): Fraser Gillan, A. Fitzsimmons, A. Chandler, C. O. et al. On the Border: Searching for Cometary Activity near the Centaur-JFC Transition Line 3 ae2c7fDeshapriya, J. D. P. Hasselmann,… Read More »Note, Paper: Activity, Activation, and Adsorption
Up in Planetary and Space Science for Feb (vol. 271): Garciá, L. N. Macchi, J. A. Shen, P. et al. Evidence of co-temporality between olivine and metal in Tucson Art 106241 .2026.106241Pires, P. Synchronous spin-orbit resonances in earth co-orbital asteroids:… Read More »Note, Paper: Separated in Time… or at Birth?
The quite wordy Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (usually Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astron., whew) has published (Feb, vol. 138 #1): Carruba, V. Caritá, G. Aljbaae, S. et al. Co-orbital asteroids of terrestrial planets affected by the von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai mechanism 8 … Read More »Note, Paper: Stable Gravel Travels
More ‘scoops’ (potentially…) from the arXiv.org preprint server: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics > arxiv.org/abs/2602.14218Li, J. Shi, X. Hui, M-t. et al. Pre-Perihelion Volatile Evolution of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Indicating Significant Contribution from Extended Source in the Coma My usual disclaimer:… Read More »Hyperactive ATLAS Gas Secondhand
In the Nature parner journal Communications Chemistry (vol. 9): Fisher, T. Ferriere, R. Potential metabolic viability on asteroid chemistry 54 s42004-025-01860-0 How’s about an appetizer for alien appetites (or not). In this research report, Fisher et al. describe their investigations… Read More »Note, Paper: Meteoritic Metabolic ‘Scripts