In the January 2026 issue of Planetary and Space Science (vol. 270): Courtot, A. Shober, P. Vaubaillon, J. Orbit dissimilarity criteria in meteor showers: A comparative review Art 106231 .2025.106231 The dissimilarity criterion (“D” value) is how we group meteoroids… Read More »Note, Paper: Meteor Cohere Inquiry
As I had briefly mentioned: the Catalina Sky Survey, one of Earth’s premiere asteroid detector systems, is hiring an observatory tech (or two): https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/24868Survey Operations Specialist, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (updated) One prerequisite: you’ll be on a mountaintop, in the… Read More »Catalina Sky Survey Hiring
Yes, it’s time again for SBAG (NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group), this time the Winter meeting: 34th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG)January 13–14, 2026 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/sbagjan2026/technical_program/?session_no=101 Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 8:30 AM8:30 AM Darryl Seligman Early-Career Icebreaker9:25… Read More »2026 Winter SBAG Meeting, 1
So-so Icarus for Feb 2026 (vol 445): Rider-Stokes, B. G. Wong, A. Y. C. Burbine, T. H. et al. The Noritic mineralogy of V- and S-type objects and the links with asteroid (4) Vesta Art 116844 /j.icarus.2025.116844Castro-Cisneros, J. D. Malhotra,… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock Path Track Math
The call is out for the 2026 Schweickart Prize. The Prize awards the best new student idea in planetary defense, and related asteroid studies. CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS: 2026 SCHWEICKART PRIZEhttps://www.schweickartprize.org/ Deadline: February 4, 2026. Information webinars with live Q&A… Read More »Call for 2026 Schweickart Prize
The purpose of the Roman Space Telescope- if you could boil it down to one- would be cosmology, not small-body science. Yet a wide field of view- at high sensitivity and small pixels- will inherently catch asteroids/comets, without even trying.… Read More »Roman Space Telescope Call(s)
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
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
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
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