The annual EPSC-DPS meeting (held together this year) for Wednesday, Sep. 10 (see also Mon and Tue): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme SB15Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets Exchange of ejected material between the terrestrial planets and the Moon – Sergei… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, III
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
Gotta keep up with Planetary Science Journal. In vol. 6 (2025): Bernstein, G. M. et al. Determinations of Asteroid Masses Using Mutual Encounters Observed in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time 162 ade3deJackson, S. L. et al. Thermal-IR Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: So Say PSJ
The journal called “Space Science Reviews” means all three. Just now (vol. 221), they have covered the Lucy mission, and covered it quite well: Levison, H.F. Marchi, S. Noll, K.S. et al. NASA’S Lucy Mission to Trojan Asteroids: Unraveling the… Read More »Space Science Reviews Lucy
See also: Day 1 The 33rd meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group continues. This is a somewhat shorter SBAG meeting than usual. Given the upheaval of January/February, and the budget/regulatory risk, funding could not be confidently assigned for Early… Read More »Summer 2025 SBAG Meeting, Day 2
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) will hold its biannual (Summer) meeting in Anchorage, Alaska this week. Even though this “general” meeting includes the sub-meetings of the Laboratory Astrophysics Division and Solar Physics Division, there’s still relevant content here for the… Read More »Summer AAS Meeting 2025 (Anchorage)
We have initial data from the Lucy mission, and its Sunday flyby of asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson. We knew it was an elongated asteroid beforehand, and it turns out imagery confirms this (rather than, say, a close binary system, or something… Read More »Lucy Flyby Update 2
As of Monday, April 21, the Lucy probe has reported it survived and is functioning. Data from asteroid Donaldjohanson now transmitting.
In light of the Lucy mission’s asteroid flyby tomorrow (1:51 PM EDT), it’s time for another batch of papers from Planetary Science Journal. In volume 6: Runyon, K. D. Durda, D. D. Klein, V. et al. Methods for Experimental Planetary… Read More »Note, Paper: Pre-Flyby Write
And now for something pedagogically different. In Space Science Reviews, dated 12 March (they’re all-online, no issues at all): Boonstra, S. K. Kretke, K. Garcia, D. et al. Technical STEM Workforce Development Re-Imagined: The Lucy Student Pipeline and Competency Enabler… Read More »Note, Pupils: Lucy L’SPACE Program