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I am not attending , but I am reading through abstracts.

Dong et al. 2024, "Detection of airbursts on Titan with Dragonfly" - https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1955.pdf

Knowing the frequency of few-meter impactors at Saturn would be very interesting.

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Taylor et al. 2024 discussing "dark comets": Near-Earth asteroids with no observed outgassing but measurable non-gravitational acceleration - https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1929.pdf

Consistent with a combination of episodically putting out just a bit of water vapor and spinning up to breakup.

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Addendum:

"dark comets" are near-Earth asteroids with no observed outgassing but measurable non-gravitational acceleration that cannot be explained by radiation pressure.

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