I missed this year’s Hayabusa Symposium, sorry. I was too tired from European Time to switch to Japan Time. And besides, the European Asteroid Size conference was looking forward, Hayabusa meetings are now (mostly…) looking back. In any case, this… Read More »2024 Hayabusa Symposium
Lots of stuff (as one might expect from the title) in PSJ (Planetary Science Journal): Rivera-Valentin, E. G. et al. Radar Circular Polarization Ratio of Near-Earth Asteroids: Links to Spectral Taxonomy and Surface Processes art 232 ad7df1Poston, M. J. et al.… Read More »Note, Paper: (Minor) PSJ
In the October Astronomy and Astrophysics (vol. 690… a big one this month): Wang, Z. Lin, H. Ye, B. et al. Near-infrared spectral behavior of space-weathered olivine with varying iron content A138 10.1051/0004-6361/202450888 Beniyama, J. Sergeyev, A. V. Tholen, D.… Read More »Note, Paper: Albedos and Athor-phys
In Nature Astronomy today (21 Oct.): Matthew A. Pasek, Ryugu’s unexpected phosphorus materials, s41550-024-02387-5 Not only was phosphate in asteroids significant (as I already blogged), but it’s news enough to have the journal Nature bring in an expert to give… Read More »Nature Review Piece- Yes, Nature
Some asteroids are active- shedding mass, like a comet. Bennu is one of them, observed by OSIRIS-REx to be ejecting pebbles to cobbles into space. Now, from the former Soviet, now Russian journal Solar System Research, for October 2024, vol.… Read More »Note, Paper: Activity Ahoy
We’re in an era of infrared astronomy… because we never left. Hot off the ‘presses’ (well, server, actually) is a paper in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to continue the field. The modern infrared age was marked… Read More »IRTF time, pt. 2- MIRSI me!
Let’s take a little trip, a trip back to the young Solar System. In the 15 Nov Icarus (vol. 423): Serra, C. Vinogradoff, V. Danger, G. et al. Unexpected mineral impact on organic evolution durin… Art 116273 .2024.116273 Jenniskens, P.… Read More »Note, Paper: Solar System Soil and Seeds
It’s the last day of the American Astronomical Society‘s 56th annual DPS Meeting (Division for Planetary Sciences, #DPS2024). Just a little longer now. Here’s the schedule, per my highly biased blog and patch: submissions.mirasmart.com/DPS56/Itinerary/EventsAAG.aspx 405 – Small Bodies with JWST… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, four
…after Day 1 and Day 2, here’s my asteroid/comet/small body selection for Day 3 of the AAS DPS (Division for Planetary Sciences) meeting, #DPS2024, underway in Boise, ID. Wednesday, October 9, 2024 307 – NEOs: General 307.01 Near-Earth Objects Detected… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, three
DPS continues. The Division for Planetary Sciences (of the American Astronomical Society) is meeting (the 56th annual one) in Boise. Each division holds sub-meetings; in even-numbered years, DPS is a standalone one. (The Europlanet Sciences Congress, last month, is combined with DPS in odd-numbered years.)… Read More »AAS DPS meeting, two