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AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Three

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The Winter 2025 meeting of the AAS (American Astronomical Society), Jan 4-8, Phoenix, AZ, concludes soon: https://aas.org/meetings/aas247 Again, my cull of small-body-relevant agenda items. Most of the meeting is general astronomy, not small bodies or Solar System items: https://submissions.mirasmart.com/AAS247/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx See… Read More »AAS Winter 2026 Meeting, Three

3I’s Silent Sliding Findings

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Revisiting arXiv.org’s “archives”: Astrophysics > Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics  arxiv.org/abs/2512.19763[Submitted on 20 Dec 2025]Jacobson-Bell, B. Croft, S. White, E. et al.  Breakthrough Listen Observations of 3I/ATLAS with the Green Bank Telescope at 1-12 GHz Spoiler alert: “We report a… Read More »3I’s Silent Sliding Findings

Note, Paper: P-Defense, B

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The January Acta Astronautica was divided into Part A and B, don’t ask me why. Now, Part B (vol. 238, Jan 2026): Otsuki, M. Baba, M. Imada, T. et al.  Exhaustive evaluation of microgravity landing dynamics for small body exploration  Pg 1-12Ye,… Read More »Note, Paper: P-Defense, B

ESO SOXS Now On

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Now posted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO): https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25011/16 Dec 2025, New SOXS instrument ready to observe fleeting cosmic events The SOXS instrument– Son of X-Shooter- has been installed on the La Silla telescope in Chile, and has taken test… Read More »ESO SOXS Now On

ATLAS Hindustan-Tracking

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More reports on our extrasolar boulder: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics  www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.16247[Submitted on 20 Nov 2025]Ahuja, G. Ganesh, S.  Dynamical simulation of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Using Newton’s laws (plus a little of Kepler’s), with the path of the comet… Read More »ATLAS Hindustan-Tracking