In this “month’s” three issues of MNRAS (Monthly Notices, Roy. Astron. Society): Volume 537, Issue 3, March 2025– Volume 537, Issue 4, March 2025Müller, D. R. Altwegg, K. Berthelieret, J-J. et al. Land of gas and dust – exploring bursting… Read More »Note, Paper: >Million Pieces
Courtesy of Planetary Science News: NASA INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY OBSERVING PROPOSALS The due date for the 2025B semester (August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026) is Tuesday, April 1, 2025. See our online submission form: https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/applicationForms-php Information on available facility… Read More »IRTF Call for Proposals
The BBC: kinda big. Therefore, coverage by the BBC is to be taken seriously, both inherently and in its impact on the discourse: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y494xkp3yoRannard, Georgina The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about Not scaremongery at all, and rather… Read More »2024 YR4 will still STILL not kill you
One in-scope paper in Planetary and Space Science, vol. 256 (Feb), and none in March: De Keyser, J. Edberg, N. J. T. Henri, P. H. et al. Optimal choice of closest approach distance for a comet flyby: Application to the… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan Sp Plans
Since I mentioned asteroid 2024 YR4, the web coverage (note I didn’t say press coverage) is not encouraging. Not encouraging… about the state of the web. Scaremonger sites are, unfortunately, ready and willing to use scare fodder wherever they can… Read More »No, 2024 YR4 will STILL NOT kill you
Icarus is a little light this month (1 Mar, vol. 428): N. Le Beca, S.J. Conway, B. Jabaud, G. et al. A new model of crater degradation on Ceres involving ice sublimation and talus formation Article 116353Ilgmars Eglitis, Darja Svincicka Rotation… Read More »Note, Paper: I-Char-us
…and speaking of negative, overhyped asteroids: the object 2024 YR4 will likely NOT cause a catastrophe. Firstly, the odds were never good to begin with: as of this past week, December 2032 impact odds were ~1.5-2 percent. Which is to… Read More »No, 2024 YR4 will NOT kill you
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
There’s a briefing on our last (known!) mini-moon (“Temporarily-Captured Flyby”, or TCF), 2024 PT5, in Astrophysical Journal Letters for January 10 (volume 978, issue 2): Bolin, B. Denneau, L. Abron, L-M. The Discovery and Characterization of Minimoon 2024 PT5 L37 … Read More »Note, Paper: Import Report
In the AIAA‘s Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics for December (vol. 47 #12): Tsukamoto, H. Chung, S-J. Nakka, Y. K. et al. Neural-Rendezvous: Provably Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects p. 2525 1.G007671 Interstellar objects… who doesn’t… Read More »Note, Paper: Guide Out