The big news of the weekend was the Bennu analyses. I didn’t really want to say much, because… we in the field pretty much knew this already. Bennu contains almost all the ingredients of life, because Ryugu contains almost all… Read More »Bennu Bio Anno
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
Turns out there is a January edition of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, I was wrong (or premature). If it’s all electronic anyway, “months” and “issues” are arbitrary, and “shipping time” is not a factor. So apparently the journal is going straight… Read More »Note, Paper: Yet Met
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
The big annual meeting of the AAS is going on as we speak. Because this is the general meeting, it covers too much, compared to the AAS-DPS (Division for Planetary Science) meeting every Autumn. Still, there is some planetary stuff… Read More »245th AAS Meeting
It’s the New Year, time for another SBAG (Small Bodies Assessment Group) Meeting. Day 1 was largely programmatics: Day 1 Agenda Icebreaker for Early-Career Attendees10:00 AM Lori Feaga Introduction and Logistics 10:05 AM Adrienne Dove UCF Welcome Agency Updates 10:15… Read More »32nd SBAG, Jan 2025 pt. 1
Happy New Year all. Let’s celebrate with… the February (Vol. 427) Icarus: Williams, Q. A note on the direction of core solidification in asteroids, the iron melting curve, and phase equilibria parameterizations Art 116381 .2024.116381 Solidification of the cores of… Read More »Note, Paper: Keep on the Irons
In the new issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (vol. 388, Jan 2025): Masuda, Y. Schiller, M. Bizzarro, M. et al. Calcium isotope evidence for the formation of early condensates in the Solar System from unmixed reservoirs with distinct nucleosynthe…… Read More »Note, Paper: Merry Iso-mas
In the second December issue (Dec. 10, vol. 977, issue #1) of Astrophysical Journal: Morton, E. M. Pickard, H. Wombacher, F. et al. Volatile Element Depletion of Carbonaceous Chondrites – Insights from Mass-dependent Zinc, Cadmium and Tellurium Isotopes Art. 53 … Read More »Note, Paper: Astero-Physical, Indeed
There has been little to say from Earth and Planetary Science Letters…until now. Volume 648 (15 December 2024) includes: Nimmo, F. Kleine, T. Morbidelli, A. et al. Mechanisms and timing of carbonaceous chondrite delivery to the Earth Article 119112 .2024.119112 The… Read More »Note, Paper: It’s Raining Met