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
On the heels of the Psyche webinar, Space Science Reviews has a paper on that Gamma Ray/Neutron Spectrometer. In vol. 221: Lawrence, D. J. Goldsten, J. O. Peplowski, P. N. et al. The Psyche Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer Art. 78 … Read More »Space Science Reviews Psyche GRNS
Wow, good issue of Astronomical Journal for Sep (vol. 170 #3): Peña-Asensio, E. Ferrari, F. Meteoroid Stream Identification with HDBSCAN Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm 140 adec8cJewitt, D. Li, J. Jaeger, M. et al. Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-period… Read More »Note, Paper: Hotshot Spots
Came across an article in Space: Science & Technology (a title within the Science family) for 27 Aug 2025 (vol 5): Zhou, Q. Guo, W. Jin, M. et al. Adaptive Brightness Enhancement Algorithm of Small Celestial Bodies Based on Knowledge… Read More »Note, Paper: Gain Range Page
In the latest issue (Sep., vol. 25 #9) of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, a Chinese-centric journal hosted by a US site: Tang, Y. Jiang, Y. Zhang, Z. et al. NEA Detection Method with Neural Network in Sidereal Tracking 095003 … Read More »Note, Paper: Wide Net
Not strictly asteroidal, but some nice background on the Vera Rubin Observatory in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9 #8): Kim, B. Rubin’s Universe 1111 s41550-025-02644-1 Let’s not forget that Rubin has four missions, only one of which is Solar System objects.… Read More »Vera Rubin Understanding
In a week, there will be a (virtual) meeting to handle the handling of results from the GRNS (Gamma Ray/Neutron Spectrometer) instrument on the Psyche mission. The Psyche probe, like Dawn before it, carries a high-energy spectrometer to measure elemental… Read More »Psyche Gamma/Neutron Webinar
The journal Acta Astronautica for Sep 2025 (vol. 234) has: Hosonuma, T. Miyabara, T. Ozaki, N. et al. Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY*: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating… Pgs. 117 .2025.04.023Li, Y-H. Lien, W-C. Liu, S-W. Development… Read More »Note, Paper: Whip, Slip, and Flip
A new instrument, CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) has just been approved for construction and eventual installation on ESO‘s VLT (Very Large Telescope). Why is this blog-able? One of the goals- an explicit goal- is to search for asteroid water:… Read More »VLT-CUBES Approved