The “Vera Rubin Observatory” is hiring… a Brit. As part of the UK’s contribution to the effort, one more Community Scientist (CS) job has been identified. The position (half-time so far, better have other projects) entails serving the needs of… Read More »Oi, Vera Rubin Hiring
The mass-market title Astronomy fell off my radar, sorry, but this time we get a COVER STORY (and more)! In the Dec 2025 issue (vol. 53, #12) is: Hyman, Randall p. 16 How we track near-Earth asteroidsChaple, Glenn p. 36… Read More »Astronomy Asteroids (…again)
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
As of this week (Oct. 28), the Vera Rubin Observatory staff has declared the project “construction complete”, and begun operations (“Early Operations”, to be explicit). In physical terms, this doesn’t mean much. In legal terms, this means that telescope checkouts… Read More »Vera Rubin Ready!
Of late, in Planetary Science Journal (all vol.6): Salazar Manzano, L. E. Gerdes, D. W. Napier, K. J. et al. Prospects of a New L5 Trojan Flyby Target for the Lucy Mission 213 adf5c2Dorsey, R. C. Hopkins, M. J. Bannister,… Read More »Note, Paper: PSJ Particle Population Post
In case you hadn’t already marked your calendar: the Rubin Users Committee will meet on Monday: https://rubinobservatory.org/events/rubin-users-committee-2025a-meeting Rubin Users Committee 2025B Meeting, Oct 27, 8 AM – 10 AM PDT This is your chance to give feedback on initial performance,… Read More »Vera Rubin Users Meeting, Monday
No less than Nature (actually Nature Astronomy, still within the Nature family) states: -, Big realities for small bodies 1407 s41550-025-02701-9 Couldn’t have put it better myself. This is an editorial introduction to the October issue (vol. 9), in which… Read More »“Big Realities for Small Bodies”
Just posted by JAXA: a polite but thorough debunking of a conspiracy theory. In Japanese culture, a rumor/viral media suggested a catastrophe, to occur on July 5. Admittedly, Japanese culture is marked by catastrophes (ask any geologist… or tropical-cyclone meteorologist).… Read More »JAXA Lays Down the Landscape
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
Astronomy and Computing is more relevant recently. In Oct’s issue (vol. 53): N. Golovich, T. Steil, A. Geringer-Sameth et al. Survey-wide asteroid discovery with a high-performance computing enabled non-linear digital tracking framework Art 100987 .2025.100987 Synthetic tracking (or track-before-detect, or… Read More »Note, Paper: Supercomputer Survey Consumer