This week will see the 16th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, in Boulder, CO (SwRI campus). It will actually overlap the Instrumentation for Planetary Missions Workshop, also in Boulder. As a subfield of geophysics, cratering can be purely theoretical and body-independent.… Read More »Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting 2025
Almost forgot Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for 1 Aug (vol. 402): Eckart, L. M. Busemann, H. Krietsch, D. et al. Noble gases in CO chondrites: Primordial components, effects of parent body thermal alteration, and cosmic ray exposure ages P 104 … Read More »Note, Paper: Meteochimica et cetera…
Wow, good Astronomy & Astrophysics for July (vol 699): Smirnov, E. A. Chaotic diffusion and transient resonance captures of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 A26 202554489 Läuter, M. and Kramer, T. Rotation dynamics and torque efficiency of cometary nuclei A75 202553845… Read More »Note, Paper: A&A Eleven Ways
The parsing continues: arxiv.org: 2507.21967Jul 29 Feinstein, A. D. Noonan, J. W. Seligman, D. Z. Precovery Observations of 3I/ATLAS from TESS Suggest Possible Distant Activity The TESS program, with word out on ATLAS, then went through their “old” data. It… Read More »3I/ATLAS Back Access
The July edition of Meteoritics & Planetary Science (vol. 60, #7) has been posted: Laforet, S. Leroux, H. Le Guillou, C. et al. Silicate–sulfide interaction within quenched melts of space weathered Ryugu grains Pgs 1480 .14366Rubin, A. E. Selective sampling… Read More »Note, Paper: Sometimes You Feel Like A Sulf
Publications on our interstellar guest 3I/ATLAS continue, as they should- we have only months before it passes behind the Sun. Publications on the arXiv platform: arXiv:2507.14916 Yang, B. Meech, K. J. Connelley, M. et al. Spectroscopic Characterization of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS:… Read More »3I/ATLAS Grab Bag
Blogworthy two ways: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409[Submitted on 17 Jul 2025]Chandler, C. O. Bernardinelli, P. H. Jurić, M. et al, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) The Rubin Observatory is so… Read More »Vera Rubin Upfront (3I)
There’s a collection in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science lately (vol. 12): Vernazza, P. Jorda, L. Tardivel, S. et al. Surface science on Phobos with the navigation cameras of the MMX IDEFIX rover 46 s40645-025-00708-4Yokota, S. Matsuoka, A. Murata,… Read More »Note, Paper: Mars Moons eXposition
New July edition of Cometary Science Newsletter. Since there happens to be a comet of note at this moment- very interesting, quite rare and speedy– the site is highly relevant. In this particular case, a web site has been set… Read More »Cometary Science Newsletter, July (3I)
Quite the Icarus for August (vol. 436): Barrett, T. J. Bryson, J. F. J. Geraki, K. The source of hydrogen in earth’s building blocks Art. 116588 .2025.116588 Li, Y. Liu, J. Ning, X. et al. Dimension-ratio-based observability analysis of asteroid… Read More »Note, Paper: As The Worlds Turn