This isn’t news to anyone already in the loop, but… a Rubin Observatory presser spells it out for those who aren’t. The sky survey by Vera Rubin might as well be a long, heavy asteroid mission: Rubin Observatory will Inspire… Read More »…”Without Ever Leaving the Ground”
This month’s Astronomy and Astrophysics is… an improvement (for us here) compared to Jan, but it’s no Dec: Edberg, N. J. T. Erikkson, A. I. Vigren, E. et al. Scale size of cometary bow shocks A51 /202346566 Bourchelle de Micas,… Read More »Note, Paper: Euro-Yarko
Unlike last month, the January Astronomy and Astrophysics (vol. 681) is a little light: de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. When the horseshoe fits: Characterizing 2023 FY3… A4 10.1051/0004-6361/202347663 Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný, D. Brož, M. Debiased… Read More »Note, paper: …to look back at Jan
Recently-discovered asteroid 2024 BX1 is… no more, it’s now meteorites (somewhere). Discovered just last week by Krisztián Sárneczky, of Hungary’s Konkoly Observatory, the object entered over eastern Germany and appeared as an obvious fireball. This is Sárneczky’s third pre-impact detection;… Read More »Ein Asteroid Impaktor… und Meteoriten?