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Hammer of the ‘Don

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An ‘inhuman’-interest piece in MIT Technology Review: April 14, 2025  Robin George Andrews  Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense  www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114306/space-nuclear-explosion-asteroid-protection-research/ Don’t accuse me of fearmongering just because I include planetary defense coverage in the wider small-body… Read More »Hammer of the ‘Don

Note, Paper: Hot Rock Copy

The April Meteoritics & Planetary Science (vol. 60, #4) is finally here: Larsen, K. Krot, A. N. Wielandt, D. et al.  Type B–type C CAI in a CR chondrite: Evidence for multiple melting events, gas–melt interaction, and oxygen-isotope exchange  Page… Read More »Note, Paper: Hot Rock Copy

BBC: (small-)Body Bi-Coverage

Not one but two articles in the BBC today: 4 April 2025  Nelson, S.  Asteroid 2024 YR4: Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them? (sic)  www.bbc.com/future/article/20250312-the-astronomers-watching-the-skies-for-asteroids Molloy, M.  Chance of asteroid hitting Moon… Read More »BBC: (small-)Body Bi-Coverage

56th LPSC (2025): Wed, Day 3

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…we continue with Day 3 (see also Days 1 and 2): Program (https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/technical_program/#20250310) Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Space Weathering https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/technical_program/?session_no=403Effect of Oxygen Ion Irradiation on the Visible, Infrared, and Raman Spectra of Phobos Candidate Materials: Implications on the Space Weathering… Read More »56th LPSC (2025): Wed, Day 3

56th LPSC (2025): Tue, Day 2

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…and the LPSC continues (see Day 1). On to Day 2: Program (https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/technical_program/) Tuesday, March 11, 2025 Impact Modeling: Striking LooksFormation of Asteroid (16) Psyche by a Giant Impact [#1317] Cambioni S. et al. Chondrites and Components: Our Rocks Chond-Rule!H,… Read More »56th LPSC (2025): Tue, Day 2