News and Research items for February 2025
Edwin Rod
News and Research items for February 2025
Hi everyone a lot of interesting papers out this month, that troubling asteroid has moved right off course from the Earth. The Lunar Eclipse is happening on the 14th so let hope the weather is good.
There is also a telescope Robin is selling too included in a separate flyer.
Research papers
It seems like we were thinking about a planet on this type of orbit just the other day, Its not going to be a "Earth like" world and most probably an hycean/ocean super Earth type of Planet. The Atmosphere and vast Ocean could make it quite a pleasant place, but does that equate to microbial life in the ocean?
Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051%2F0004-6361%2F202451769
Phanerozoic icehouse climates as the result of multiple solid-Earth cooling mechanisms
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm9798
Ocean stratification impedes particulate transport to the plumes of Enceladus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02036-3
An Arctic analogue for the future exploration of possible biosignatures on Enceladus
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063325000182
The Role of Atmospheric Composition in Defining the Habitable Zone Limits and Supporting E. coli Growth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05297
Architecture Classification for Extrasolar Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08191
Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth's Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada3c7
TOI-4504: Exceptionally Large Transit Timing Variations Induced by Two Resonant Warm Gas Giants in a Three-planet System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad9a53
Recent Tectonic Deformation of the Lunar Farside Mare and South Pole–Aitken Basin
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad9eaa
One interesting planet here
Highly reflective white clouds on the western dayside of an exo-Neptune
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02488-9
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Interesting News items
INTERNATIONAL ASTEROID WARNING NETWORK (IAWN)
POTENTIAL ASTEROID IMPACT NOTIFICATION
https://iawn.net/documents/NOTIFICATIONS/IAWN_Potential_Impact_Notification_2024_YR4.pdf
Io Volcanic Activity
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-juno-mission-spots-most-powerful-volcanic-activity-on-io-to-date/
Researchers Practice Searching for Life on Enceladus, in the Arctic Ocean
Outer cold gas giant planets and brown dwarfs could be more common due to these findings
Cuts to Webb
https://spacenews.com/jwst-facing-potential-cuts-to-its-operational-budget/