YouTube is 21st-Century television- a pandering medium for pandered, lazy minds. However, every once in a while an authoritative source posts meaningful content, instead of shiny, pandering noise. That day has come, and regarding a celestial body of which much… Read More »ATLAS Panel Chat
More preprints (NOT officially reviewed journal papers) from arXiv.org: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2602.12930Paek, G. S. H. Im, M. Jeong, M. et al. Pre-perihelion Emergence of the CN Gas Coma in 3I/ATLAS Temporally and Spatially Resolved by the… Read More »ATLAS Activity Track Drafts
The “February” issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society brings us: Volume 545, Issue 4, February 2026 Morate,D. Mahlke,M. Álvarez-Candal,A. et al. JaMONCITO: the Javalambre – Moving Objects New Catalog from Investigations of Time-domain Observations staf2052Buendia, E. Valdés,… Read More »Note, Paper: Now Browsing; Then Dousing?
The Feb 1 Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) (vol. 997 #2) contains: Tribbett, P. D. Yarnall, Y. Y. Gerakines, P. A. et al. Radiation-driven Destruction of N-heterocycles in the Presence and Absence of Water Ice Art 291 ae22f0 Asteroids contain organics. That’s… Read More »Note, Paper: If Life Dices in Ice
Let’s keep up with our interstellar visitor, via a faster channel (arXiv.org): Earth and Planetary Astrophysics > arxiv.org/abs/2601.22034Belyakov, M. Wong, I. Bolin, B. T. et al. The Volatile Inventory of 3I/ATLAS as seen with JWST/MIRI [Submitted on 30 Jan 2026]… Read More »Large-Aperture ATLAS Activity
Let’s get caught up again with arXiv preprints: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics > arxiv.org/abs/2601.15443Tan, H. Yan, X. Li, J-Y. Perihelion Asymmetry in the Water Production Rate of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS[Submitted on 21 Jan 2026] arxiv.org/abs/2601.16983Hoogendam, W. B. Jones, D.… Read More »ATLAS Gas and Path Abstracts
Posted on AASNova, an aggregator for publications of AAS (the American Astronomical Society): https://aasnova.org/2026/01/28/monthly-roundup-interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas/Kerry Hensley, 28 January 2026 Monthly Roundup: Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Spoiler: it’s a comet. The release of chunks that, themselves, release gas (“hyperactivity”) is a bit odd,… Read More »ATLAS Jan Wrapup (…so far)
Going on this moment: the Macao International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences 2026: ifmacao.must.edu.mo In the program (https://ifmacao.must.edu.mo/program-detail): Xiaodong WANG, Solar Wind, Cometary Ions and Energetic Neutral Atoms (SCIENA) Sensor for the ESA Comet Interceptor Mission Long XIAO, The… Read More »Macau Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences
Aired Wednesday night, and also available online- a PBS asteroid documentary: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/asteroids-spark-of-life/Nova: Asteroids: Spark of Life? Earth started off as a barren rock. Somehow, it became inhabitable and inhabited. Here we see some of the possible stages in that process,… Read More »Asteroids: Spark of Life? Documentary
Catching up with arXiv.org‘s posts: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics > arxiv.org/abs/2601.06759Lisse, C. M. Bach, Y. P. Bryan, S. A. et al. SPHEREx Re-Observation of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS in December 2025: Detection of Increased Post-Perihelion Activity, Refractory Coma Dust, and New… Read More »ATLAS Gas and Scatterer Scan