I wanted to leave a break for the holidays, but… this one’s a bit important. Astronomy and Astrophysics Review doesn’t print a lot, but the term “Review” means those papers it does print are substantial and significant. So: Bagnulo, S.… Read More »Pola-Review Paper
The first January issue of Acta Astronautica (vol. 226 part 1) is a good one. Here’s some light reading for your holiday: Iwry, J. Collective action problems in planetary defense p. 25 .05.029Wang, Y. Guan, W. Hu, J. High-fidelity landing… Read More »Note, Paper: Act Fast
As much as there are ‘monthly issues’ for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, here are the ‘issue(s)’ for December: Volume 535, #2, December 2024 – Volume 535, #3, December 2024Chen, Yue Li, Jian A new multiple-arc model of the… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly, Mechanics Notices
No dead of winter for Icarus. The Icarus issue for Jan. 2025 (vol. 425): McClure, L.T. Emery, J.P. Thomas, C.A. et al. Size-based spectrophotometric analysis of the Polana-Eulalia Complex Article 116322 .2024.116322Lee, K. Fang, Z. Wang, Z. Investigation of the… Read More »Note, Paper: January Carries
In this blog I cite science works, not popular science. But in this case, New Scientist magazine is a level above newsstand pulp, or even Popular Science: Robin George Andrews, Asteroid Adventure. New Scientist, Nov. 9-15 (vol. 264 #3516), page… Read More »Note, Pop-er
Nothing new for anyone who already works in NEOs, but… here’s a nice overview paper. In the latest issue of Remote Sensing (vol. 16, issue 22, November #2): Espartero, F. Cubas, J. Nespral, D. et al. New Astronomical Observatory Design… Read More »Note, Paper: Get A Sense Of All Them
From the EU-ESA Workshop on Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects: Wednesday, 11/13/24 ( … see also Monday and Tuesday) Polarimetric observations Double Trouble: Polarimetric Insights into the Didymos- Dimorphos post-DART Evolution Zuri GrayOn September 26, 2022, the NASA DART… Read More »Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs pt. III
The EU-ESA Workshop on Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects continues. For Tuesday, 11/12/24, we continued phase curves, but after that it was thermal infrared observations and polarimetry: https://indico.esa.int/event/530/contributions/ Absolute magnitudes and photometry from the MPC catalog Peter Vereš (Minor… Read More »Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs pt. II
Ongoing: the EU-ESA Workshop on Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects (https://indico.esa.int/event/530). Step one in “Planetary Defense” is, of course, to spot the Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs). But step two is also important: gauge the size of the threat object.… Read More »Workshop: Size Determination of Potentially Hazardous NEOs
The December Acta Astronautica (vol. 225) is a good one for orbital mechanics/flight dynamics people: Lantoine, G. Cox, A. Sweetser, T. et al. Trajectory & maneuver design of the NEA Scout solar sail mission p 77 .08.039Cohen, A. N. Lubin, P.… Read More »Note, Paper: Acta As. Path to Asts.