So-so Icarus for Feb 2026 (vol 445): Rider-Stokes, B. G. Wong, A. Y. C. Burbine, T. H. et al. The Noritic mineralogy of V- and S-type objects and the links with asteroid (4) Vesta Art 116844 /j.icarus.2025.116844Castro-Cisneros, J. D. Malhotra,… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock Path Track Math
Oops, almost missed Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, January (vol. 282 #1). It is supplemental: Galád, A. Podlewska-Gaca, E. Világi, J. et al. A Photometric Survey of over 200 V-type Asteroids and Their Phase-curve Analysis Art 9 ae226fDunham, E. T. Liu,… Read More »Note, Paper: Tiny or Mighty Shiny Aerolites
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
The Icarus issue for Dec (vol. 442) brings us: Tusberti, F. Pajola, M. Penasa, L. et al. Lithologies of Dimorphos revealed by boulder morphological classes Art. 116744 .2025.116744Rubino, S. Zambon, F. Brunetto, R. et al. Space weathering on Vesta: Ion bombardment… Read More »Note, Paper: Bombardment Assortment
The 2025 GSA Connects meeting (Geological Society of America) is next week, Oct 19-22, San Antonio: https://connects.geosociety.org/ Some of my (biased) highlights from the agenda (admittedly, mostly terrestrial as you might guess): Pardee Keynote Symposia…Wednesday, 22 October-Impact Cratering and EvolutionP4.… Read More »GSA Connects meeting, 2025
This Saturday, Sep 27 is Astronomy Day: astronomyday.astroleague.org Organizations around the world will put on promotions and other activities in support of sky appreciation- is there an astronomy club or other entity near you? www.astroleague.org/astronomy-clubs-usa-state/backyardstargazers.com/astronomy-clubs-near-me/www.go-astronomy.com/astro-club-search.htmnightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/clubs/www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-clubs.htmlskyandtelescope.org/astronomy-clubs-organizations/ While you’re at an event… Read More »Astronomy Day 2025
Besides Science, there are asteroidal works in Science Advances. In the 25 Jun (vol. 11 #26) issue: Jupiter Cheng, H. C. Klimczak, C. Matsuyama, I. Reorientation and despinning of 4 Vesta formed the Divalia Fossae ads7984 Even before the Dawn… Read More »Note, Paper: Vesta Dust-Up
The June 2025 issue of Icarus (vol. 433) is a good one: Ribeiro de Sousa, R. Izidoro, A. Morbidelli, A. et al. Reassessing the origin and evolution of Ecliptic Comets in the Planet-9 Scenario Article 116472 .2025.116472de Luis, M. Parro, L.… Read More »Note, Paper: Asteroids A-Go-Go
Always interesting to see ideas make Nature (or a Nature-family journal): Park, R. S. Ermakov, A. I. Konopliv, A. S. et al. A small core in Vesta inferred from Dawn’s observations s41550-025-02533-7 We thought we had the story: Asteroid (4)… Read More »Note, Paper: The Nature of Vesta?
In light of the Lucy mission’s asteroid flyby tomorrow (1:51 PM EDT), it’s time for another batch of papers from Planetary Science Journal. In volume 6: Runyon, K. D. Durda, D. D. Klein, V. et al. Methods for Experimental Planetary… Read More »Note, Paper: Pre-Flyby Write