Astrobites at AAS 235: Day 4
We report on Day 4 of the winter AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI.
Aliens Among Us*
*just to be clear, the aliens I am talking about are rocks and not alive nor intelligent. But there may be many of them!
Cloudy with a chance of wind
How does gravity tell us about the winds in a planet’s atmosphere? Read on to find out!
Looking at Stars but Seeing the Kuiper Belt
A low-cost survey found the first kilometer-sized Kuiper Belt Object using stellar occultations and clever analysis.
A Proposed Moon Formation Theory: The Multiple-Impact Hypothesis
Could the Moon have formed from multiple impacts? Find out in today’s guest post by Jacob Azoulay.
Adventure to an Asteroid: JAXA’s Hayabusa2 visits Ryugu
Earlier this year, JAXA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid — one that can hopefully tell us about the solar system’s past, and how life on Earth came to be.