The tech media has gotten hold of this, but I’ll add my own context. The International Planetary Probe Workshop was held this week, hosted by Langley Research Center, in nearby Williamsburg, VA. The press makes much of OSIRIS-REx being an… Read More »IPPW ’24- Planetary Probes
Published in the Meteoritics & Planetary Science issue for June (vol. 59 #6): Jonkers, G. van Maldeghem, F. van Ginneken, M. et al. Oxygen isotope compositions of fr… p. 1236 maps.14145 MacLennan, E. M. Emery, J. P. McClure, L. M.… Read More »Note, Paper: Met bits
The NASA ExMAG meeting (Extraterrestrial Materials Assessment Group) for Spring, 2024 is going on now. Day 1 status (mostly preliminaries): 1. General statuses. Updates on Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity air test (RIP- not news). Updates on FY24 budget (since March… Read More »ExMAG Spring 2024 meeting
The European Geophysical Union held their annual meeting, in Vienna, At. You may ask what a “geophysical union” has to do with this site. Since Earth accreted from asteroids, geophysics has, oh… 99.99% to do with an asteroid site. Geochemistry… Read More »EGU24 Meeting
There has been a recurring theme through the past, oh, 15 years or more of Small-Body science. The April issue (vol. 243) of Planetary and Space Science is like heavy rotation: Kokhirova, G. I. Zhonmuhammadi, A. I. Khamroev, U. H.… Read More »Comet-Asteroids by Shower (Mote Paper)