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
The August issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science (volume 60, Issue 8) is now up. In it: Ivanova, M. A. Teplyakova, S. N. Lorenz, C. A. Origin of the metal in chondritic and achondritic lithologies of the Sierra Gorda 013… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock Shock Procs
New coverage by, not Science, but a sister title, Science Advances (this is becoming a pattern). For 22 Aug (vol. 11, #34): Courville, S. W. Castillo-Rogez, J. C. Melwani Daswani, M. et al. Core metamorphism controls the dynamic habitability of… Read More »Note, Paper: Pelt Melt… Cells?
This week will see the 16th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, in Boulder, CO (SwRI campus). It will actually overlap the Instrumentation for Planetary Missions Workshop, also in Boulder. As a subfield of geophysics, cratering can be purely theoretical and body-independent.… Read More »Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting 2025
Almost forgot Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for 1 Aug (vol. 402): Eckart, L. M. Busemann, H. Krietsch, D. et al. Noble gases in CO chondrites: Primordial components, effects of parent body thermal alteration, and cosmic ray exposure ages P 104 … Read More »Note, Paper: Meteochimica et cetera…
Wow, good Astronomy & Astrophysics for July (vol 699): Smirnov, E. A. Chaotic diffusion and transient resonance captures of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 A26 202554489 Läuter, M. and Kramer, T. Rotation dynamics and torque efficiency of cometary nuclei A75 202553845… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Eleven Ways
We’re due for a PSJ (Planetary Science Journal) (2025- vol. 6) update- way overdue, apparently: Helfenstein, P. Verbiscer, A. J. On Error Estimates for Hapke Photometric Model Parameters from Disk-integrated Phase Curves of Airless Planetary Bodies 144 adcd5dLee, A. Kavelaars, J. J.… Read More »Note, Paper: PSJ Ten Ways