February’s “issue” (all-digital) of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (vol. 536) is done, and it’s ‘volatile-rich’: Volume 536, Issue 4, February 2025– Volume 537, Issue 1, February 2025Longobardo, A. Angrisani, M. Palomba, E. Photometry of (162173) Ryugu and… Read More »Note, Paper: Royal Astro-volatile Society
Just added: Workshop on Bennu and Ryugu: Samples from the Early Solar System The Workshop on Bennu and Ryugu: Samples from the Early Solar System is scheduled for October 7–9, 2025, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston,… Read More »Bennu/Ryugu: Samples from Early Solar System
The big news of the weekend was the Bennu analyses. I didn’t really want to say much, because… we in the field pretty much knew this already. Bennu contains almost all the ingredients of life, because Ryugu contains almost all… Read More »Bennu Bio Anno
Turns out there is a January edition of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, I was wrong (or premature). If it’s all electronic anyway, “months” and “issues” are arbitrary, and “shipping time” is not a factor. So apparently the journal is going straight… Read More »Note, Paper: Yet Met
For what it’s worth, the December issue of Nature Astronomy is a special one on Ryugu. Of course, we’re in the digital era, so the notion of an “issue” is handwavey- most of the works in it were already put… Read More »Tout, Papers: Special Nat. Astron. Issue
No dead of winter for Icarus. The Icarus issue for Jan. 2025 (vol. 425): McClure, L.T. Emery, J.P. Thomas, C.A. et al. Size-based spectrophotometric analysis of the Polana-Eulalia Complex Article 116322 .2024.116322Lee, K. Fang, Z. Wang, Z. Investigation of the… Read More »Note, Paper: January Carries
From the latest MAPS (Meteoritics and Planetary Science), too new to have article numbers yet: Schönbächler, M. Fehr, M. A. Yokoyama, T. et al. Zirconium isotope composition indicates s-process depletion in samples returned from asteroid Ryugu .14279 S-process isotopes are components… Read More »Note, Paper: Where are the Stars?
I missed this year’s Hayabusa Symposium, sorry. I was too tired from European Time to switch to Japan Time. And besides, the European Asteroid Size conference was looking forward, Hayabusa meetings are now (mostly…) looking back. In any case, this… Read More »2024 Hayabusa Symposium
New from Meteoritics and Planetary Science: Jurewicz A.G.J. Amarsi A.M. Burnett D.S. Differences in elemental abundances between CI chondrites and the solar photosphere .14272MacArthur, J. Joy, K. Jones, R.H. et al. Curation and classification procedures for the UK Antarctic meteorite… Read More »Do You CI? (Note Paper MAPS)
And now for a little change of venue. With the obvious exception of “mini-moons” (TCOs and TCFs) asteroid targets are in heliocentric orbits, and often at ranges measured in AUs. Round-trip light time is a few minutes, and it’s unrealistic… Read More »Note, Paper: A-Robot