No less than Nature Astronomy has just published (17 September 2025): Egal, A. Vida, D. Colas, F. et al. Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence s41550-025-02659-8 Asteroid 2023 CX1 was discovered in- yes, 2023- and… Read More »Note, Paper: Nut Dropper
More papers in PSJ (Planetary Science Journal), vol. 6 (2025)- they just keep posting: Scully, Jennifer E. C. et al. Leveraging Ceres to Gain Insights into the Candidate Ocean Worlds of Umbriel and Oberon That Orbit Uranus 187 adec97Vinogradoff, Vassilissa… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock-Objects Contexts
The Europlanet-AAS Division for Planetary Science meeting for Friday, Sep. 12 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM10Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions (sample return, analogs, analytical workflow etc.) Low-temperature reflectance spectra of meteorites:… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, V
Just out in Nature Astronomy, first 05 Sep, then 08 Sep: Ciocco, M., Roskosz, M., Doisneau, B. et al. A collisional history of the L chondrite parent bodies s41550-025-02615-6Anderson, S.E., Vernazza, P. & Brož, M. Different arrival times of CM-… Read More »Note, Paper: Chondrite Flight Insights
The annual EPSC-DPS meeting (held together this year) for Wednesday, Sep. 10 (see also Mon and Tue): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme SB15Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets Exchange of ejected material between the terrestrial planets and the Moon – Sergei… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, III
The joint Europlanet and AAS–DPS meeting, for this Tuesday (see also Day 1): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme Tuesday, 9 Sep SB10 Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres Cosmic dust in the heliosphere- Veerle Sterken CE4 Europlanet General Assembly TP8… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, II
It’s an odd-numbered year. Therefore, the American Astronomical Society’s meeting of their Division for Planetary Sciences will be a joint meeting (in Helsinki, FI) with the Europlanet Science Congress, on September 8-12: https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ Of course, next year will be two… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, I
It’s not every day we see a paper in the Open Access Journal of Astrophysics. But this is that day: Guidos, J. Kolanz, L. Lazzati, D. Discrete element simulations of self-gravitating rubble pile collisions: the effects of non-uniform particle size… Read More »Note, Paper: Bit-Sim Bits
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
The academic year has started, yet there are conferences. This coming Monday (a holiday in the US/Canada) will be the first of many, highly applicable to this site: IMPACTS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE CONFERENCE The meeting… Read More »Impacts and Life Conference, 1 Sep