This month’s Astronomical Journal (vol. 169 Number 2) is all about the (quasi-) comets: Kasuga, T. Comet 289P/Blanpain: Near perihelion Activity and the Phoenicids 54 ad95fdKurlander, J. A. Holman, M. J. Bernardinelli, P. H. et al. A Well-Characterized Survey for… Read More »Note, Paper: Activity Journal
One (significant) paper in the current Astrophysical Journal (Feb 10, Vol 980 #1): Angrisani, M. Palomba, E. Longobardo, et al. Spectral Variations across Latitudes on Asteroid (3200) Phaethon art. 127 ada60d If you aren’t already familiar with the object (3200) Phaethon, it’s… Read More »Note, Paper: Pre-Destiny
Astronomy & Astrophysics for Jan (vol 693) still says “in progress”- surely a misprint, since Feb is already (partly) up. Oh well, here’s what’s “in progress”: Bourdelle de Micas, J. Perna, D. Fornasier, S. et al. Spectral and photometric characterization… Read More »Note, Paper: Ast & Act
In MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society), Jan (vol. 536): Volume 536, Issue 1, January Arcoverde, P. and others Study of basaltic asteroids through their phase curves Pages 223, stae2612Lu, J. and others A global binary asteroid system model… Read More »Note, Paper: Flash in Jan
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
As much as there are ‘monthly issues’ for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, here are the ‘issue(s)’ for December: Volume 535, #2, December 2024 – Volume 535, #3, December 2024Chen, Yue Li, Jian A new multiple-arc model of the… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly, Mechanics Notices
In the Res. Notes. Astron. Astrophys. issue for Dec.: Kokhirova, G. l. Zhang, M. Li, X-G. et al. Near-Earth Asteroids as the Parents of the δ-Cancrid Meteoroid Stream a. 125002 ad8c87 Dark comets are asteroids- nominally- that actually show (metaphorically)… Read More »Note, Paper: Dark Comets Deux
Nearing the end of this year’s Europlanet meeting. The program for this day is particularly small-body-related: Keynote lecture SB “Highlights of Hayabusa 2 sample return mission” by Patrick MichelKeynote lecture TP by “An estimate of the impact rate on Mars… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024, Part Epsi (SSSB)
The journal GCA isn’t monthly, like a lot of journals these days. So it’s time to catch up; here’s Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol. 381, for 15 Sep: Noguchi, T. Nakashima, D. Ushikubo, T. et al. Chondrule-like objects and a Ca-Al-rich… Read More »Note, Paper: Geo-Comet-A
Quickly: this October will be the 43rd International Meteor Conference, by the IMO: imc2024.imo.net Meteor showers are the phenomena we see when many bits enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. Those bits are the coarser particles shed in the tails… Read More »International Meteor Conference 2024