It’s DPS time! The American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences is now holding their 56th annual meeting (#DPS2024), in Boise, ID. The general AAS meeting (every winter) is just…too…big, so the divisions hold sub-meetings. In odd-numbered years, DPS and… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, one
Sorry, but I forgot the Astronomical Journal for September. In Volume 168, Number 3, 2024 September 2, there was one paper to mention, but what a mention: Yu, L-L. Probe the Regolith Characteristics of Asteroids from 9 yr Infrared Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: Beagle exploration…
Icarus, the international journal of solar system science, is all about the flow rates this month (if you consider photons or dust a flow). In vol. 422, for 1 Nov 2024: McGraw, L.E. Emery, J.P. Thomas, C.A. et al. Spatially dependent… Read More »Note, Paper: Fluxarus
…and to Astrophysical Journal, we can add ApJ Supplement Series. From the October ApJSS (vol.274, issue 2): Nesvorny, D. Roig, F. Vokrouhlicky, D. et al. Catalog of Proper Orbits for 1.25 Million Main-belt Asteroids and Discovery of 136 New Collisional… Read More »Note, Paper: “Supplement” to say the least
Days ago, the call went out. The time committee of the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) opened up for early-2025 (that is, semester A) proposals. That means astronomy groups can now submit their applications for IRTF observing. In case you aren’t… Read More »2025A Solicitation: IRTF Time
I had spoken too soon about the August issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. There was something there, something rather worthy. And here’s September, too: vol. 379 AugYui, H. Urashima, S.-h. Onose, M. et al. Pyrrhotites in asteroid 162173 Ryugu:… Read More »Note, Paper: Mea C. A.
I want to bring up a new NASA solicitation. No, I don’t want to bring to your attention a solicitation (announcement of opportunity), I want to show just how far the announcement and NASA policies have strayed from outcome-oriented, actionable… Read More »No More Paper- More Launch
I know, I know, yet another ANOTHER meeting… the Advanced Maui Optical/infrared Summit is one of the premiere telescopic/photonic events in the annual calendar: amostech.com AMOS is good, not just because you go visit Maui, but because the “RSO” (resident… Read More »2024 AMOS Conference
Catching up, soooo many meetings. This spring was the Vera Rubin Observatory Targets of Opportunity Workshop. It had been identified and noted years ago that VRO has a survey cadence, to find interesting targets in the sky, catalog them outright,… Read More »Rubin ToO Meeting- Report
Related to the COSPAR meeting going on at this moment: there’s an adjunct, research-focused meeting immediately afterward. The first PSSE (Planetary Science and Space Exploration) meeting was held near Busan, Korea, in Daejeon: www.ibs.re.kr/psse2024/ Let’s not brush off a tiger.… Read More »…and its adjunct Planetary Sci/Exploration meet