Beresheet crashed.Vikram crashed.Hakuto-R crashed.Luna-25 crashed.Peregrine crashed.Resilience crashed. Hayabusa bounced. It then continued its mission, and… returned to Earth. Almost 20 years ago. The gravity of Earth’s natural satellite is one-sixth Earth’s gravity… and that of Ceres, the largest asteroid, is… Read More »“Low Gravity” Indeed
Here’s one out of the blue. In the journal Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation: Wu, Y. Song, Z. Zhang, X. et al. The dynamic corridor of regolith transportation near a spinning-up asteroid 108905 .2025.108905 Particle dynamics has lots of applications- mining,… Read More »Note, Paper: Astr-lanche
How did I miss this one… in Space Science Reviews (vol.221): Nakamura, T. Engrand, C. Zolensky, M. et al. Sample Return Missions: Rosetta Stones Returned from the First Small Bodies in the Solar System 44 s11214-025-002268-4 Yes, Space Science Reviews.… Read More »Note, Paper: Sample Return Science Reviews
Going on now: the virtual meeting, Itokawa And The Dawn of Asteroidal Sample Return. If you hadn’t been watching the news at the time, it’s easy to- today- forget that the JAXA Hayabusa mission laid the groundwork (in one form… Read More »Itokawa Sample Workshop
The Astrophysical Journal for Jan. 10 (vol. 978 issue 2) contains: Obase, T. Bajo, K-i. Otsuki, Y. et al. Extreme Solar Particle Ejection Event in the Last Few Million Years from Asteroid Itokawa Sample art. 142 ad9919 The solar wind… Read More »Note, Paper: Asteroid Blast-Gas
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