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Note, Paper: P-Defense, B

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The January Acta Astronautica was divided into Part A and B, don’t ask me why. Now, Part B (vol. 238, Jan 2026): Otsuki, M. Baba, M. Imada, T. et al.  Exhaustive evaluation of microgravity landing dynamics for small body exploration  Pg 1-12Ye,… Read More »Note, Paper: P-Defense, B

Vera Rubin Up Next For Uprate

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Congratulations to the Vera Rubin Observatory staff, all around, for being named a runner-up for Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year, after the boom in renewable energy (i. e., Swanson’s Law): vol. 390 #6779, 18 DecScience’s 2025 Breakthrough of the… Read More »Vera Rubin Up Next For Uprate

ATLAS Staff And Handling

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Interesting presser from the University of Canterbury, a partner institution with the Vera Rubin Observatory: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-events/news/2025/kiwi-team-lead–out-of-this-world–study-of-new-comet17 Dec 2025  Kiwi team lead ‘out of this world’ study of new comet A little human interest and behind-the-scenes for our field. Read about… Read More »ATLAS Staff And Handling

Vera Rubin Upload

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The December issue of Nature Astronomy is out (vol. 9), and: Rehemtulla, N. Coughlin, M. W. Miller, A. A. et al.  The automation of optical transient discovery and classification in Rubin-era time-domain astronomy  p 1764   s41550-025-02720-6 There is simply no… Read More »Vera Rubin Upload

2025-Fall AGU Meeting

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Time for the Autumn meeting of the AGU (American Geophysical Union). The big meet is in New Orleans, Dec. 15-19: https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting As you might expect from the name “Geophysical”, it mostly deals with the Earth. It deals with the Earth… Read More »2025-Fall AGU Meeting

Oi, Vera Rubin Hiring

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

LSST@LATAM Meeting

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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

Vera Rubin Ready!

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!