The characterization (and digitalization) continues: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.01647[Submitted on 1 Sep 2025]Salazar Manzano, L. E. Lin, H. W. Taylor, A. G. et al. Onset of CN Emission in 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Strong Carbon-Chain Depletion And now,… Read More »3I Cyanide Tri-Described
Finally, Astronomy and Astrophysics for August (vol. 700): de la Fuente Marcos, R. Alarcon, M. R. Licandro, J. et al. Assessing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Two-meter Twin Telescope L9 202556439Alvarez-Candal, A. Rizos,… Read More »Note, Paper: Straight from the Source
Icarus, for Oct (vol. 439) contains the few but vital: García-Migani, E. Gil-Hutton, R. Correa-Otto, J. Activity in quasi-Hilda objects: A photometric approach Art. 116634 .2025.116634Fukai, R. Takeda, Y. Masuda, Y. et al. The bright-field grinding tomography of coarse-grained calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions… Read More »Note, Paper: Oooh, Shiny
Wow, good issue of Astronomical Journal for Sep (vol. 170 #3): Peña-Asensio, E. Ferrari, F. Meteoroid Stream Identification with HDBSCAN Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm 140 adec8cJewitt, D. Li, J. Jaeger, M. et al. Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-period… Read More »Note, Paper: Hotshot Spots
Astrophysics > Solar and Stellar Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382[Submitted on 25 Aug 2025]Rahatgaonkar, R. Carvajal, J. P. Puzia, T. H. et al. VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II. From quiescence to glow: Dramatic rise of Ni I emission and incipient CN outgassing at large… Read More »3I Cyanide Described
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The comet chronicling continues: Astrophysics > Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.16825[Submitted on 22 Aug 2025)Davenport, J. R. A. Sheikh, S. Z. Croft, S. et al. Technosignature Searches of Interstellar Objects Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209[Submitted on 25… Read More »3I Hypothesized, Rovib-Characterized
We’ve gone a little while without ATLAS matters: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768[Submitted on 22 Aug 2025]Eubanks, T. M. Bills, B. G. Hibberd, A. et al. 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1): Direct Spacecraft Exploration of a Possible Relic of Planetary… Read More »3I + SPHEREx = Identified
Just posted (not August) in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9? issue?): Barnes, J. J. Nguyen, A. N. Abernethy, F. A. J. et al. The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid s41550-025-02631-6 As befits Nature, this is a quite deep… Read More »Note, Paper: We Read “Seeds”
The journal Acta Astronautica for Sep 2025 (vol. 234) has: Hosonuma, T. Miyabara, T. Ozaki, N. et al. Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY*: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating… Pgs. 117 .2025.04.023Li, Y-H. Lien, W-C. Liu, S-W. Development… Read More »Note, Paper: Whip, Slip, and Flip