This week will bring us the Galileo at 30 meeting, a retrospective of the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Jovian system: https://www.kiss.caltech.edu/special_events/2025_Galileo_at_30.html Monday marks 30 years since the orbit insertion maneuver. Let’s not forget, aside from the Jovian system,… Read More »Happy Gali-versary (Galileo at 30)
Starting roughly, oh… now, but peaking the night of Dec. 13-14 is the Geminid meteor shower. You know, the Geminids- fragments of, not a comet, but asteroid (3200) Phaethon? This asteroidal shower has an interesting origin story- or would that… Read More »Geminid Meteor Shower This Month
Courtesy of AstroBites– https://astrobites.org/2025/12/01/book-review-space-hazards-asteroids-solar-flares-and-cosmic-threats/ Dr. Ryan French, formerly writing on the Sun alone, now expands to other flareups that may affect Earth: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/space-hazards-asteroids-solar-flares-and-cosmic-threats-facing-earth-dr-ryan-french?variant=43731356090402 Admittedly, NEOs have to share time with X-class solar flares, gamma-ray bursts, etc. So the 240 pages… Read More »“Space Hazards” (Ryan French) Review
The Vera Rubin Observatory is organizing a themed meeting this week: https://sites.google.com/view/lsstlatam2025/home This meeting is to coordinate and promote data users in Latin America, and I don’t mean just Chile. https://sites.google.com/view/lsstlatam2025/program Opening Remarks9:30 – 10:00 Rubin Plenary: Robert Blum (Rubin,… Read More »LSST@LATAM Meeting
Now out in New Scientist, vol. 268 #3569: Richard Binzel, 15 November 2025 “We don’t want to keep an asteroid secret, because then no one ever trusts you” p. 38 This week’s interview is with astronomer Richard (Rick) Binzel, well-known… Read More »NEO-Binzel New-Interview
We’ve got a new blog, tied to a new journal title. The open-access journal Planetary Research will post its first issue in 2026. Related, the title has just got its blog up and running: https://blog.planetary-research.org/2025/11/14/introducing-the-planetary-research-blog/Introducing: The Planetary Research Blog Of… Read More »New Blog: Planetary Research
Breaking: Dr. Bryce Bolin will give a talk today, on small bodies: asteroids, comets, and in particular extrasolar, interplanetary objects like 3I: https://griffithobservatory.org/event/all-space-considered-november-2025/ Dr. Bryce Bolin, Exploration of Interstellar Objects and Other Exotic Asteroids and Comets Dr. Bolin is a… Read More »Timely Topic Talk Today
They say any publicity is good publicity, but… we could use better publicity: interestingengineering.com/future-of-space/future-of-asteroid-mining-explainedKaif Shaikh, 5 Nov The future of asteroid mining: Missions, resources, and challenges explained Shaikh does a decent enough job- nothing we don’t already know in this… Read More »Asteroid Tri-Mining Tabloid?
We go meta. As our interstellar guest scoots through the inner Solar System, a journalist interviews guest scientists: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interplanetary-race-to-study-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas/Meghan Bartels, Oct 31 2025 The Interplanetary Race to Study Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Pretty accurate. Not much hard sci, but more of… Read More »3I Scientists Plied
Don’t dismiss the Canadian space effort, official or unofficial. The website New Space Economy is… not above leading headlines and trolling questions, but otherwise it’s a fairly informed and up-to-date operation. Up to last week: newspaceeconomy.ca/2025/10/29/a-history-of-planetary-defense/-, Oct. 29 A History of… Read More »“History of Planetary Defense” Post