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
…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
Quickly: Space Science Reviews has a Lucy paper, a Lucy mission science procedure paper: Olkin, C. Vincent, M. Adam, C. et al. Mission Design and Concept of Operations for the Lucy Mission vol. 220 art. 47 s11214-024-01082-1 Interesting, except it’s… Read More »Note, Paper: More Lucy, reprise
JUICE is running, Europa Clipper is built and in checkout for launch this year… and the small-body community is onboard. Space Science Reviews- no lightweights- had been running a “collection” (articles aligned in theme, but not date like in the… Read More »Note, Paper: E-Ticket!
The April issue of Astronomical Journal is not so Solar-System-centric as last month’s, but that’s publishing for you. Last month was a bounty, this one’s a breather: K. Tang, A. Pomazan, Maigurova, N. et al. Error Analysis for Rotating-drift-scan Charge-coupled… Read More »Note, Paper: April AJ, yay!
Coverage of Jupiter Trojan objects by Space Science Reviews (an ongoing Special “Issue”) continues: Emery, J. P. Binzel, R. P. Wong, I. Surface Compositions of Trojan Asteroids a28 01060-7 Mottola, S. Britt, D. T. Brown, M. E. et al. Shapes,… Read More »Note, Paper: March, WITH the Trojans
… to conclude. Besides obvious results on Ryugu/Bennu, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference covered lots of other topics this year. You know, Planetary Science: -The DART mission succeeded, as we saw. An entire session (Tue 8:20 am), Characterization of… Read More »LPSC Meeting 2024, part 3
You may have missed two papers because they’re in ApJL- Astrophysics Journal Letters. Not exactly PlanSci Central: Greenstreet, S. Gladman, B. Jurić, M. Jupiter’s Metastable Companions page L40 ad28c5 Laforet, S. Le Guillou, C. de la Peña, F. et al.… Read More »Note, Paper: We Get Letters
Wow, what a mother lode in the March issue (vol. 167, #3) of AJ. Transition objects galore: Explicit comets (including high, supervolatile-based activity), Kuiper Belt- and Jupiter Trojan-objects (likely quasi-comets that just don’t warm up enough), and general sky search:… Read More »Note, Paper: Astronomical Journal, pre-Vernal
For those following the Lucy mission (since you’re on this site), several papers in Space Science Reviews (quite the source): Reuter, D.C. Simon, A.A. Lunsford, A. et al. L’Ralph: A Visible/Infrared Spectral Im… vol. 219, 69 10.1007/s11214-023-01009-2 Weaver, H.A. Wilson,… Read More »Lucy: Now actually in the sky