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2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, II

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The joint Europlanet and AAS–DPS meeting, for this Tuesday (see also Day 1): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme Tuesday, 9 Sep SB10 Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres  Cosmic dust in the heliosphere-  Veerle Sterken   CE4 Europlanet General Assembly    TP8… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, II

AAS DPS meeting, three

…after Day 1 and Day 2, here’s my asteroid/comet/small body selection for Day 3 of the AAS DPS (Division for Planetary Sciences) meeting, #DPS2024, underway in Boise, ID. Wednesday, October 9, 2024 307 – NEOs: General 307.01 Near-Earth Objects Detected… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, three

4th Known TCO (“Mini-Moon”)

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News: we have spotted a new “Mini-Moon” (Temporarily-Captured Orbiters, or more specifically a Temporarily-Captured Flyby): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad781f de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT5 Captured by Earth from September to November, Res. Notes AAS,… Read More »4th Known TCO (“Mini-Moon”)