Nearing the end of this year’s Europlanet meeting. The program for this day is particularly small-body-related: Keynote lecture SB “Highlights of Hayabusa 2 sample return mission” by Patrick MichelKeynote lecture TP by “An estimate of the impact rate on Mars… Read More »Europlanet. Sci. Congress 2024, Part Epsi (SSSB)
Like GCA, the journal Icarus is digital and doesn’t have twelve “issues” per year. So time to catch up, with October (vol. 421): Wargnier, A. G. Doressoundiram, T. Poggiali, A. et al. Spectro-photometry of Phobos simulants. I… Art 116216 .2024.116216Wimarsson, J.… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus Insert
…and the first days of the MetSoc annual conference (metsoc2024.brussels), minus Bennu: metsoc2024.brussels/programm/ Mars and Mars Sample Return – Monday, July 29, 8:30 AM Branagan-Harris E. Bowles N. E. King A. J. et al. Investigating the Origin of Mars’ Moon… Read More »MetSoc 2024 meeting – II. First Half
The Insight meeting (“Mars Interior and Geophysics after Insight”) was this week (Jul 16-18). Yes, on the Mars Insight lander, which I will discuss on this blog for good reasons. The Mars Insight (Interior, seismic investigation, geophysics, and heat transfer)… Read More »2024 Mars Insight meeting
Last-minute additions had me posting Astronomy and Astrophysics for June (vol. 686) just now. What’s that about Europeans liking comets (including their meteors)? Kipfer, K. A. Ligterink, N. F. W. Rubin, M. et al. Sublimation of volatiles from H2O:CO2 bulk… Read More »Note, Paper: Old-Worl’ Volatiles Follies
… to conclude. Besides obvious results on Ryugu/Bennu, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference covered lots of other topics this year. You know, Planetary Science: -The DART mission succeeded, as we saw. An entire session (Tue 8:20 am), Characterization of… Read More »LPSC Meeting 2024, part 3
Icarus, the Solar System Astronomy journal, has some worthy papers as you might expect. First, a holdover from the “March” Icarus issue (vol. 410- not like months are even relevant any more for a virtual “issue”): Kamada, A. Kuroda, T.… Read More »Note, Paper: Icarus and the water