Advances in Space Research has posted for 1 March (vol. 77, #5): Han, Z-Z. Liu, S-X. Guo, Y-X. The orbital dynamics modeling and simulation of asteroid probe based on variational integrators Pages 5986 .2025.12.074de Almeida Jr., A. K. Santos, L.… Read More »Note, Paper: Turn About is Our Play
Going on this moment: the Macao International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences 2026: ifmacao.must.edu.mo In the program (https://ifmacao.must.edu.mo/program-detail): Xiaodong WANG, Solar Wind, Cometary Ions and Energetic Neutral Atoms (SCIENA) Sensor for the ESA Comet Interceptor Mission Long XIAO, The… Read More »Macau Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences
The Winter 2025 meeting of the AAS (American Astronomical Society), Jan 4-8, Phoenix, AZ, concludes soon: https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Again, my cull of small-body-relevant agenda items. Most of the meeting is general astronomy, not small bodies or Solar System items: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx See… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Three
Now posted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO): https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25011/16 Dec 2025, New SOXS instrument ready to observe fleeting cosmic events The SOXS instrument– Son of X-Shooter- has been installed on the La Silla telescope in Chile, and has taken test… Read More »ESO SOXS Now On
Quick blurb in Astronomers’ Telegram: www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17538Jehin, E. Hmiddouch, S. Aravind, K. et al. TRAPPIST bright comets production rates: 3I/ATLAS, 24P/Schaumasse, C/2025 T1 (ATLAS), C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN)on 10 Dec 2025: 22:50 UT Besides covering multiple comets, coverage of interstellar… Read More »ATLAS Slight-Aperture Brightnesses
In the Planetary And Space Science December 2025 issue (vol. 269): Gorshanov, D. L. Sokova, I. A. Petrova, S. N. et al. Testing the binarity of asteroid (720) Bohlinia using lightcurve analysis Art 106217 .2025.106217 We think there’s a satellite around… Read More »Note, Paper: Sat Anal Validated?
Let’s check Icarus for 1 January 2026 (vol. 443): Souza-Feliciano, A. C. Rommel, F. L. Morgado, B. E. et al. Rotational Light Curve, phase, and visible colors of (52246) Donaldjohanson throughout Lucy Mission Flyby Art 116771Hirabayashi, M. Prediction of Apophis’s… Read More »Note, Paper: Of Shapes and Fates
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!
Quickly: ApJL (Astrophysical Journal, Letters), the fast(er…)-response medium of Astrophysical Journal, now includes (vol. 994 #1, Nov 20): Jewitt, D. Luu, J. Preperihelion Development of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS L3 This is the “print” (official, as opposed to preprint) of their… Read More »3I Light Curve Blurb
The November edition of MNRAS (actually three “issues”) is now up: Volume 543, Issue 3, November Huang, C. Wu, Y. Yu, Y. Force chains bias the dynamic response to impacts in rubble-pile asteroids Pg 2523 staf1575Matsuoka, R. N. Kuramoto, K. Origin… Read More »Note, Paper: Bits Whizz, Near and Far