I let this one slip by, apologies. The TNO 2024 meeting happened this June 24-28, in Taipei, Taiwan. There’s a definite but vague link between literal asteroids and Transneptunian objects. That, and I didn’t go to Taiwan. Not even close.… Read More »TNO2024 meeting
Summer means a Summer meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG, www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/). Now, my recap of Day 2. (see Day 1) – An update of DESTINY+, JAXA’s mission to rock comet (3200) Phaethon. Yes, a rock comet. Ground observations… Read More »SBAG, Summer 2024 day 2
Just a reminder: This week is SBAG mid-2024, the biannual NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group meeting. It’s this Thursday and Friday, virtual: www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/sbagjuly2024/ Want a teaser? www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/sbagjuly2024/technical_program/ This is not to be missed, certainly not by me.
I mentioned the name-that-asteroid contest. (And I mentioned HSC…) But why just (re)name some existing celestial body when you can (co)discover one? web-coias.u-aizu.ac.jp COIAS is short for Come On! Impacting ASteroids. The COIAS program, new this May, is an opportunity… Read More »Virtual (Very large?) Observatory: COIAS asteroid hunt!
…and the “June” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (the concept of months is pretty arbitrary, almost doesn’t work any more): vol. 530, #4 Slíz-Balogh, J. Mádai, A. Sári, P. et al. Observation of the L5 Kordylewski dust cloud… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly Nōt-productive
Yet more picks from the 2024 SPIE telescopes conference (because the full program is just too extremely large): 13092-4 Cubesats for Rapid Infrared and Optical Surveys mission13103-1 Teledyne Digital Imaging’s Recent Contributions to Astronomy and Planetary Science13103-3 SIRIS : a new… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view too…
Hard to pick, but: some personal faves from the 2024 SPIE astro-specific conference. You can view via the search function of the SPIE site. 16 June 13096-2 Instrumentation at the Subaru Telescope 13096-3 The Paranal instrumentation programme 13092-12 The legacy of SOFIA and… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view…
The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference is big, really big. For lack of days and days of time and effort, my observations: – The era of submillimeter/Terahertz astronomy is coming, or arguably here… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… two
It’s time. The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) is holding its even-year telescope conference (this time, Yokohama, Japan): spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/astronomical-telescopes-and-instrumentation Did I say IAU GA was big? SPIE is bigger. The IAU is topical, covering astronomy. SPIE as a… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… whew
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…