The joint Europlanet and AAS–DPS meeting, for this Tuesday (see also Day 1): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme Tuesday, 9 Sep SB10 Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres Cosmic dust in the heliosphere- Veerle Sterken CE4 Europlanet General Assembly TP8… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, II
The academic year has started, yet there are conferences. This coming Monday (a holiday in the US/Canada) will be the first of many, highly applicable to this site: IMPACTS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE CONFERENCE The meeting… Read More »Impacts and Life Conference, 1 Sep
Just posted (not August) in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9? issue?): Barnes, J. J. Nguyen, A. N. Abernethy, F. A. J. et al. The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid s41550-025-02631-6 As befits Nature, this is a quite deep… Read More »Note, Paper: We Read “Seeds”
The annual Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting came and went, July 27-Aug 1, in Singapore. Forgot to post this, sorry: AOGS2025 SESSION PS19: HYDRATION IN AIRLESS BODIES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The recent decades have brought a revolution in our… Read More »2025 AOGS Meeting
In the Planetary and Space Science issue for 15 Sep (vol. 264): Ramírez-Vázquez, L. Duarte-Ruiz, A. A. Santiago-Santos, M. G. et al. Stability of adenine in interaction with saponite in a simulated hydrothermal impact-generated system and its… Art 106151 .2025.106151… Read More »Note, Paper: Of Clay, DNA, and A’s
This week will be the International Workshop On Instrumentation for Planetary Missions for 2025.From 4-6 August, in Boulder, Colorado (UC-Boulder LASP), scientists and engineers will meet on planetary mission science instruments and other payloads. This year, there’s a big effort on… Read More »Instrumentation for Planetary Missions Workshop 2025
Almost forgot Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for 1 Aug (vol. 402): Eckart, L. M. Busemann, H. Krietsch, D. et al. Noble gases in CO chondrites: Primordial components, effects of parent body thermal alteration, and cosmic ray exposure ages P 104 … Read More »Note, Paper: Meteochimica et cetera…
Wow, good Astronomy & Astrophysics for July (vol 699): Smirnov, E. A. Chaotic diffusion and transient resonance captures of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 A26 202554489 Läuter, M. and Kramer, T. Rotation dynamics and torque efficiency of cometary nuclei A75 202553845… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Eleven Ways
And now, the final day of the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ My cull of relevant agenda items: Friday, July 18, 2025 Aqueous Alteration of Chondrites Babrián B. et al.An Experimental View of Progressive Aqueous Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrites [#5048] Lee M.… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 5
(see also Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) My picks (biased, clearly) from the 2025 MetSoc: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2025/technical_program/ Thursday, July 17, 2025 Carbonaceous Chondrites and Chondritic Components 2 Swain S. et al.Mineralogy of C1, C2 and CM-Like Clasts in Chondrite and Achondrite… Read More »Meteoritical Society Meeting 2025, Day 4