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SPHEREx, PUNCH Up

The launch of the SPHEREx spectrometry mission and PUNCH heliospheric mission, on a single rocket, was successful. All four PUNCHes and SPHEREx deployed from the second stage. SPHEREx, for one, has successfully communicated with the ground; the PUNCH team has… Read More »SPHEREx, PUNCH Up

Note, Paper: Big-arus

Lots in Icarus for 15 Mar (vol. 429), and this is in a mid-month “extra” issue: Lin, S. Wang, X. Chen, N.  Direct solar radiation distribution and driving mechanisms on planetary surfaces – Moon, Mars, Ceres, and Mercury  Article 116402 … Read More »Note, Paper: Big-arus

Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs pt. II

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The EU-ESA Workshop on Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects continues. For Tuesday, 11/12/24, we continued phase curves, but after that it was thermal infrared observations and polarimetry: https://indico.esa.int/event/530/contributions/ Absolute magnitudes and photometry from the MPC catalog Peter Vereš (Minor… Read More »Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs pt. II

Note, Paper: Bullseye!

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This month’s issue (Oct) of PSJ (Planetary Science Journal) has planetary defense coverage. In vol 5, #10: Masiero, J. R. Linder, T. Mainzer, A. et al. Visual-band Brightnesses of Near-Earth Objects that will be Discovered … p. 222  ad7859 leva, S. Mazotta… Read More »Note, Paper: Bullseye!