It’s MetSoc time, though slightly early for 2025- the meeting is in the Southern Hemisphere this year, Perth AU. No, I am not flying there. I’ll just have to content myself online. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/Monday, July 14, 2025 Day one, and what… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 1
Look- an article in Nature. Well, a Nature-family journal, Scientific Reports. In vol. 15: Tenuta, S. Evans, K.A. Reddy, S.M. et al. Bio-mediated CN cycling in serpentinites and the origin of life 22452 s41598-025-04161-7 The origin of life is a… Read More »Note, Paper: Serpent’s Kiss
The journal called “Space Science Reviews” means all three. Just now (vol. 221), they have covered the Lucy mission, and covered it quite well: Levison, H.F. Marchi, S. Noll, K.S. et al. NASA’S Lucy Mission to Trojan Asteroids: Unraveling the… Read More »Space Science Reviews Lucy
Time to revisit Planetary Science Journal and its latest papers: Kareta, T. Schambeau, C. A. Firgard, M. et al. Activity-induced Near-infrared Spectral Variability at 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, 2017-2022 119 adce07Diotte, F. Lemelin, M. Doucet, F. R. et al. Laser-induced Breakdown… Read More »Note, Paper: Plan Cat?
The journal Planetary and Space Science is thin for July (vol. 261): Cambianica, P. Munaretto, G. Cremonese, G. Pre-perihelion observations of the carbon-depleted comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinchan-ATLAS)- Insights into CN production and molecu… art. 106102 .2025.106102 I’ve said it before:… Read More »Note, Paper: Organic Dragnet
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) will hold its biannual (Summer) meeting in Anchorage, Alaska this week. Even though this “general” meeting includes the sub-meetings of the Laboratory Astrophysics Division and Solar Physics Division, there’s still relevant content here for the… Read More »Summer AAS Meeting 2025 (Anchorage)
In Earth and Planetary Science Letters for 15 June (volume 660): Cassata, W. S. A refined isotopic composition of cometary xenon and implications for the accretion of comets and carbonaceous chondrites on Earth Art 119307 .2025 119307 Comets did not fill… Read More »Note, Paper: Comet Not Wet
The journal Astronomy & Astrophysics is a bit light for May (vol. 698): Rojas, J. Duprat, J. Dartois, E. et al. Light element isotopic heterogeneities in organic residues that formed by the ion irradiation of ices A34 202451601 Kenworthy, M.… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Explains Grains
Generally, the papers in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta are too in-the-weeds and shoegazey for this blog (…or would that be cho-gazey?). Except now- for 1 Jun 2025 (vol.398): Serra, C. Grauby, O. Ferry, D. et al. Experimental investigations of mineral-organic… Read More »Note, Paper: SSSB Seed Detail
A small-body paper made a Nature group journal, Nature Astronomy: Beck, P. Quirico, E. Poch, O. et al. On the darkness of Ryugu and other dark small bodies s41550-025-02557-z The carbonaceous asteroids (those in the C-complex) resemble the carbonaceous-chondrite meteorites.… Read More »Note, Paper: Black of Night