Gotta keep up with Planetary Science Journal. In vol. 6 (2025): Bernstein, G. M. et al. Determinations of Asteroid Masses Using Mutual Encounters Observed in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time 162 ade3deJackson, S. L. et al. Thermal-IR Observations… Read More »Note, Paper: So Say PSJ
There’s a mid-month issue of Icarus, for 15 Sep (vol. 438): Jedicke, R. Alessi, E. M. Wiedner, N. et al. The steady state population of Earth’s minimoons of lunar provenance Art. 116587 .2025.116587Combi, M. R. Mäkinen, T. Bertaux, J.-L. et… Read More »Note, Paper: Mid-Icarus Edition
A new instrument, CUBES (Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph) has just been approved for construction and eventual installation on ESO‘s VLT (Very Large Telescope). Why is this blog-able? One of the goals- an explicit goal- is to search for asteroid water:… Read More »VLT-CUBES Approved
The annual Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting came and went, July 27-Aug 1, in Singapore. Forgot to post this, sorry: AOGS2025 SESSION PS19: HYDRATION IN AIRLESS BODIES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The recent decades have brought a revolution in our… Read More »2025 AOGS Meeting
In case you had been assuming, assume no more. Science is about data and evidence: Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arxiv.org/abs/2508.04675[Submitted on 6 Aug 2025]Water Detection in the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLASXing, Z. Oset, S. Noonan, J. et al. ATLAS… Read More »3I Dehydrating
Catching up with Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), not printing every month. In vol. 77 #4, some worthy papers: Miura, H. Yasuda, T. Thermal evolution model from cometary nuclei to asteroids considering contraction associated with ice sublimation… Read More »Note, Paper: Comet-Asteroid Matters
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…
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
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