Recently accepted and posted by Nature– yes, Nature. 10 Sep 2025: Iizuka, T. Shibuya, T. Hayakawa, T. et al. Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in Ryugu s41586-025-09483-0 Certain isotopes decay to known, stable, predictable… Read More »Note, Paper: Late Flow on Ryugu. FLOW.
The ATLAS papers haven’t stopped- plenty are rushing to get observations in before the comet goes behind the Sun as seen from Earth next month: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.07678[Submitted on 9 Sep 2025]Pérez-Couto, X. Torres, S. Villaver, E. et… Read More »ATLAS Pre-Pre-PRE-Covery
More papers in PSJ (Planetary Science Journal), vol. 6 (2025)- they just keep posting: Scully, Jennifer E. C. et al. Leveraging Ceres to Gain Insights into the Candidate Ocean Worlds of Umbriel and Oberon That Orbit Uranus 187 adec97Vinogradoff, Vassilissa… Read More »Note, Paper: Rock-Objects Contexts
The details on our interstellar friend keep filling in, now that we have tracking over a nonnegligible observing arc: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.05181[Submitted on 5 Sep 2025]Gray, Z. Bagnulo, S. Borisov, G. et al. Extreme Negative Polarisation… Read More »ATLAS Keeps Tabs on ATLAS…
The annual EPSC-DPS meeting (held together this year) for Wednesday, Sep. 10 (see also Mon and Tue): https://www.epsc-dps2025.eu/ https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/meetingprogramme SB15Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets Exchange of ejected material between the terrestrial planets and the Moon – Sergei… Read More »2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting, III
The observation/publication cycle is getting into a groove: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.02813[Submitted on 4 Sep 2025]Frincke, T. T. Yaginuma, A. Noonan, J. W. et al. Near-Discovery SOAR Photometry of the Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS arxiv.org/abs/2509.03361[Submitted on 4… Read More »3I/ATLAS Tracking
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
The characterization (and digitalization) continues: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2509.01647[Submitted on 1 Sep 2025]Salazar Manzano, L. E. Lin, H. W. Taylor, A. G. et al. Onset of CN Emission in 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Strong Carbon-Chain Depletion And now,… Read More »3I Cyanide Tri-Described
Icarus, for Oct (vol. 439) contains the few but vital: García-Migani, E. Gil-Hutton, R. Correa-Otto, J. Activity in quasi-Hilda objects: A photometric approach Art. 116634 .2025.116634Fukai, R. Takeda, Y. Masuda, Y. et al. The bright-field grinding tomography of coarse-grained calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions… Read More »Note, Paper: Oooh, Shiny
Astrophysics > Solar and Stellar Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382[Submitted on 25 Aug 2025]Rahatgaonkar, R. Carvajal, J. P. Puzia, T. H. et al. VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II. From quiescence to glow: Dramatic rise of Ni I emission and incipient CN outgassing at large… Read More »3I Cyanide Described