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Astronomy Day 2025

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This Saturday, Sep 27 is Astronomy Day: astronomyday.astroleague.org Organizations around the world will put on promotions and other activities in support of sky appreciation- is there an astronomy club or other entity near you? www.astroleague.org/astronomy-clubs-usa-state/backyardstargazers.com/astronomy-clubs-near-me/www.go-astronomy.com/astro-club-search.htmnightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/clubs/www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-clubs.htmlskyandtelescope.org/astronomy-clubs-organizations/ While you’re at an event… Read More »Astronomy Day 2025

MIT Tech Review Times Two

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In the current issue of MIT Technology Review (Sep/Oct, vol. 128 #5):  Tereza Pultarova  p. 12  Job titles of the future: Satellite Streak AstronomerRobin George Andrews  p. 42  Inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever Yes, we have… Read More »MIT Tech Review Times Two

New Solarsystem.video Site

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ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF SOLARSYSTEM.VIDEOThe Planetary Research Cooperative is pleased to announce the launch of its community video server that is devoted exclusively to planetary science content – SolarSystem.video: https://solarsystem.video The server uses the federated open-source software Peertube, and the… Read More »New Solarsystem.video Site

Vera Rubin Understanding

Not strictly asteroidal, but some nice background on the Vera Rubin Observatory in Nature Astronomy (vol. 9 #8): Kim, B.  Rubin’s Universe  1111  s41550-025-02644-1 Let’s not forget that Rubin has four missions, only one of which is Solar System objects.… Read More »Vera Rubin Understanding

Dark “Comet”… Part Trois

Referencing Taylor et al. 2024: Aug 7  Jonathan O’Callaghan  The mysterious ‘dark comets’ prowling our Solar Systemwww.bbc.com/future/article/20250807-a-japanese-spacecraft-is-racing-toward-a-mysterious-dark-comet-to-discover-the-secrets-it-holds The BBC- usually pretty good on technical topics- has a nice writeup of our current state in “dark comets”- asteroids that show nongravitational… Read More »Dark “Comet”… Part Trois

3I/ATLAS: Small-Body Copy

More interstellar-object coverage, not necessarily peer-reviewed science output, but more substantial than just lay prose: www.gemini.edu/news/press-releases/noirlab2522July 15, 2025  Josie Fenske  Gemini North Observes Comet 3I/ATLAS www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-interstellar-object-3i-atlass-biggest-mysteries-explained/July 16, 2025  Jonathan O’Callaghan 7 Big Mysteries about Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS  Apologies for the… Read More »3I/ATLAS: Small-Body Copy