Next week: the 6th Binaries in the Solar System (Binaries VI), in Nice, FR 15 to 17 September 2025 https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/ Some highlights (I admit I’m biased here):https://bam-vi.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Program_BAM_1.pdf Monday – 15 SeptemberRachel Cueva Modeling the Dynamical Survivability of Binary Asteroids in… Read More »Binaries In The Solar System Meeting, 2025
The meeting for Thursday, Sep. 11 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme MITM8Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces The potential of in-situ THz-spectroscopy to resolve the subsurface structure of Comets – Linus Stoeckli et al.… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, IV
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
Icarus, for Oct (vol. 439) contains the few but vital: García-Migani, E. Gil-Hutton, R. Correa-Otto, J. Activity in quasi-Hilda objects: A photometric approach Art. 116634 .2025.116634Fukai, R. Takeda, Y. Masuda, Y. et al. The bright-field grinding tomography of coarse-grained calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions… Read More »Note, Paper: Oooh, Shiny
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
Catching up with Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), not printing every month. In vol. 77 #4, some worthy papers: Miura, H. Yasuda, T. Thermal evolution model from cometary nuclei to asteroids considering contraction associated with ice sublimation… Read More »Note, Paper: Comet-Asteroid Matters
A quick story in the journal Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-sets-out-sample-unusual-near-earth-asteroid Dennis Normile China sets out to sample an unusual near-Earth asteroid .z2q2idq Normile describes the Chinese Tianwen-2 mission and its target, the Earth-resonant asteroid (469219) Kamo’oalewa. The asteroid has the unusual property… Read More »Out of Ecliptic, In Patch
…see first, second, and third posts… The COIAS program (centered around the Subaru Telescope and its HSC instrument) aims to discover asteroids swept up by the wide field of the HSC. That it does, certainly: the effort has a few… Read More »…Continuing (Comets) COIAS…
If not issues, Planetary Science Journal has unambiguous volumes. In the new vol. 6, we start with some interesting papers for a first installment: Hsieh, H. H. et al. The Volatile Composition and Activity Evolution of Main-belt Comet 358P/PANSTARRS art.… Read More »Note, Paper: Spot the Non-Dot
In Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 691 Nov. 2024: Fiore, F. Matteucci, F. Spitoni, E. et al. A census of the Sun’s ancestors and their contributions to the Solar System chemical composition A46 202451076Hajduková, M. Stober, G. Barghini, D. et al. No… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Day