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
Yes, I know I just posted on new entries from RNAA (Research Notes of the AAS). The newest Notes include a report of the James Webb Space Telescope getting time to spot asteroid 2024 YR4, which was initially tracked to… Read More »Note Note: JWST Studies 2024 YR4
…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
…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
The LPSC: it’s a bit of a big deal. Arguably, this is the biggest single conference in the whole calendar, if you’re a planetary scientist (the PS in LPSC). I didn’t make it to Houston this year, so here’s my… Read More »56th LPSC (2025): Mon, Day 1
Missed Meteoritics & Planetary Science for February (vol. 60 #2): Jenkins, L. E. Lee, M. R. Daly, L et al. Petrofabrics in the CM chondrite Kolang: Evidence for non-spherical chondrules in the protoplanetary disk p. 190 .14297 Dionnet, Z. Djouadi,… Read More »Note, Paper: Meteo-squishics
Just announced last week- this year will have two international meetings on planetary defense against impactors. The Japanese space agency (JAXA) is coordinating a meeting, Feb. 27-28. This is in conjunction with the Japan Spaceguard organization, and overlapping (the first… Read More »2025 Planetary Defense Meeting- OTHER Meeting
I missed this one, but it wasn’t all that substantive. NASA held its NESF (NASA Exploration Science Forum) in St. Louis, last week (Jul 23-25). In the NASA context, ‘exploration’ intimates human exploration. It doesn’t intimate e. g., sample return,… Read More »NESF meeting 2024
The “July” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, so to speak, is nice. Too bad the org will not go quasi-paper (a 1:1 online version of a paper one), nor fully digital (no month affectation at all). Articles instead… Read More »Note, “Monthly Notices” Papers (July)
And now the May 1 Astronomical Journal (vol. 167 #5): Ofek, E. O. Polishook, D. Kushnir, D. et al. Asteroid Collisions: Expected Visibility and Rate a 190 ad2c03 Ding, X. Song, Z-M Wang, C-J et al. Detection of Contact Binary… Read More »Note, Paper: AJ, change-J