And now for a little change of venue. With the obvious exception of “mini-moons” (TCOs and TCFs) asteroid targets are in heliocentric orbits, and often at ranges measured in AUs. Round-trip light time is a few minutes, and it’s unrealistic… Read More »Note, Paper: A-Robot
It’s the last day of the American Astronomical Society‘s 56th annual DPS Meeting (Division for Planetary Sciences, #DPS2024). Just a little longer now. Here’s the schedule, per my highly biased blog and patch: submissions.mirasmart.com/DPS56/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx 405 – Small Bodies with JWST… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, four
…and to Astrophysical Journal, we can add ApJ Supplement Series. From the October ApJSS (vol.274, issue 2): Nesvorny, D. Roig, F. Vokrouhlicky, D. et al. Catalog of Proper Orbits for 1.25 Million Main-belt Asteroids and Discovery of 136 New Collisional… Read More »Note, Paper: “Supplement” to say the least
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
News: we have spotted a new “Mini-Moon” (Temporarily-Captured Orbiters, or more specifically a Temporarily-Captured Flyby): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad781f de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT5 Captured by Earth from September to November, Res. Notes AAS,… Read More »4th Known TCO (“Mini-Moon”)
I know, I know, yet another ANOTHER meeting… the Advanced Maui Optical/infrared Summit is one of the premiere telescopic/photonic events in the annual calendar: amostech.com AMOS is good, not just because you go visit Maui, but because the “RSO” (resident… Read More »2024 AMOS Conference
I know, I know, another meeting. But 2025 is an odd-numbered year… it’ll be PDC time again! iaaspace.org/event/9th-iaa-planetary-defense-conference-2025/ This time, it will be in Stellenbosch, South Africa, slightly later than usual – May 5-9, 2005. Southern hemisphere, maybe? In case… Read More »Planetary Defense Conf. 2025 now open
Still catching up on meetings, but speaking of catching: the Rubin Community Workshop 2024 was held (at SLAC, Jul 22-26). No proceedings seem available just yet, but maybe better: some or all sessions were recorded, and posted online: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPINAcUH0dXYRxx6NweLPFFJNZPqtkzC9 Some… Read More »Rubin Community Workshop 2024 (SLAC, Jul 22-26)
Catching up, soooo many meetings. This spring was the Vera Rubin Observatory Targets of Opportunity Workshop. It had been identified and noted years ago that VRO has a survey cadence, to find interesting targets in the sky, catalog them outright,… Read More »Rubin ToO Meeting- Report
I let this one slip by, apologies. The TNO 2024 meeting happened this June 24-28, in Taipei, Taiwan. There’s a definite but vague link between literal asteroids and Transneptunian objects. That, and I didn’t go to Taiwan. Not even close.… Read More »TNO2024 meeting