Not well shared: The Vera Rubin camera is in Chile, on-mountain. There was a fair amount of coverage of the LSSTCam’s completion, at Stanford’s SLAC lab, in April. But with little fanfare, the pre-ship review passed, the camera was packed… Read More »First Light in Sight…
No news to OREx fans, but here’s a good explainer from Dante Lauretta himself, including early sample results: OSIRIS-REx: Revealing Secrets from the Dawn of our Solar System https://airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/events/osiris-rex-revealing-secrets-dawn-our-solar-system Lauretta just gave the Smithsonian’s Exploring Space lecture this Wednesday, May… Read More »OSIRIS-REx Revealing Secrets…
The European Geophysical Union held their annual meeting, in Vienna, At. You may ask what a “geophysical union” has to do with this site. Since Earth accreted from asteroids, geophysics has, oh… 99.99% to do with an asteroid site. Geochemistry… Read More »EGU24 Meeting
This isn’t news to anyone already in the loop, but… a Rubin Observatory presser spells it out for those who aren’t. The sky survey by Vera Rubin might as well be a long, heavy asteroid mission: Rubin Observatory will Inspire… Read More »…”Without Ever Leaving the Ground”
Brief observation of non-observation: no small-body works in the Feb. Nature Astronomy (arguably). The Ryugu paper was actually out in late Nov./early Dec, so its label “Feb 2024” is an accounting fluke. As with Science, there’s so much going on… Read More »No-Paper: Nature Astronomy
January’s Acta Astronautica is a mother lode: Schmidt, N. Planetary defense governance: Thirty years of development and the multilateral… p. 343 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.10.050 Jamschon, L. Garry, M. Albrecht, R. et al. Diplomatic, geopolitical and economic consequences… p. 496 10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.10.052 Melamed, A.… Read More »Note, Paper: The other A A
A quick note, since this story is yet to be written: Antarctic meteorite collection (at least, by US teams) has finally restarted after the pandemic. Meanwhile the Japanese and the Belgians (jointly, sure) were back out last season. This should… Read More »On Ice: Meteorite Field Season back in season
Happy Saturday. In weekend news, congratulations to Adam McKay, director of Don’t Look Up, and now honored by the official naming of the provisional 2005 AM26, now (227033) Adamjmckay. Let’s all lift up our glasses to McKay, the WGSBN, the… Read More »On The Rocks: (227033)(formerly known as AM26)
Lori Glaze, head of NASA’s Planetary Division, has dubbed late ’23 as “Asteroid Autumn“. Well, thanks for the publicity, but I’m afraid I have to nitpick: ‘asteroids, alpha and omega’ would be more descriptive. We, the sons of Piazzi (and… Read More »“Asteroid Autumn”? Asteroid_S_ ALWAYS