More lightcurves on our little visitor, but this time in millimeter-wave: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2512.021061 Dec 2025Hinkle, J. T. Yang, B. Meech, K. J. et al. JCMT Constraints on the Early-Time HCN and CO Emission and HCN… Read More »ATLAS Maxwell-Tackled
This week will bring us the Galileo at 30 meeting, a retrospective of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Jovian system: https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/special_events/2025_Galileo_at_30.html Monday marks 30 years since the orbit insertion maneuver. Let’s not forget, aside from the Jovian system,… Read More »Happy Gali-versary (Galileo at 30)
The “Vera Rubin Observatory” is hiring… a Brit. As part of the UK’s contribution to the effort, one more Community Scientist (CS) job has been identified. The position (half-time so far, better have other projects) entails serving the needs of… Read More »Oi, Vera Rubin Hiring
The mass-market title Astronomy fell off my radar, sorry, but this time we get a COVER STORY (and more)! In the Dec 2025 issue (vol. 53, #12) is: Hyman, Randall p. 16 How we track near-Earth asteroidsChaple, Glenn p. 36… Read More »Astronomy Asteroids (…again)
New in Space Science Reviews (2025, vol. 221): Tortora, P. Granmiga, E. Lasagni Manghi, R et al. The Radio Science Experiment on Hera, Juventus and Milani Art 124 s11214-025-01253-8 The Hera mission contains the CubeSats Juventus and Milani. The two… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Radio Three Europe
The journal Aerospace Science and Technology covers everything from little ‘copters to starships. But now and then, given its breadth, something is asteroid-relevant. In the Dec issue (vol. 167): Yang, H. Zhu, S. Ge, D. et al. Impulsive maneuver optimization… Read More »Note, Paper: Landing Commanding Understanding
Wow, what an Astronomy & Astrophysics for Nov. (vol. 703): Ortiz, J. L. Morales, N. Sicardy, B. et al. A high geometric albedo and small size for the Haumea cluster member (24835) 1995 SM55 determined from a stellar occultation and… Read More »Note, Paper: AaAnksgiving!
The journal Space Science Reviews goes buffet-style. Now up (2025, vol. 221): Noll, K. S. Levison, H. F. Marchi, S. The Lucy Mission: First to the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids- Editorial Art. 119 s11214-025-01252-9 There’s a Lucy-themed special issue of SpaceSciRev… to… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Lucy (Review…)
No surprise: ESA’s Ministerial Council approved (officially…) the RAMSES mission. While meeting this week (26-27 Nov… US holiday), the European Space Agency’s Council of Ministers officiated Agency matters. RAMSES is now on track to rendezvous with Apophis in ~2029, partly… Read More »RAMSES Has Rubber Stamp
The Nov Aerospace Science and Technology (vol. 166) includes: Jiang, X. Zhang, J. Lu, X. Joint design, safety margin, and ground experiments of an underactuated asteroid lander Art. 110630 .2025.110630Guo, Y. Wen, T. Zeng, X. Energy dissipation mechanism of particle… Read More »Note, Paper: Asteroid Landing Understanding