Thursday was a short day at the conference. I had to check out of the hotel in the late morning, so I had time only to jump between two sessions (another exoplanet one, and one about near-Earth asteroids [NEAs]). E ditor's note: Liz is posting updates regularly from DPS09 to Twitter.com/AstronomyMag . The exoplanet session focused on what I’ve noticed to be an extremely popular topic here at the conference — modeling exoplanet atmospheres. That...

Thanks to Ron Dantowitz and Marek Kozubal at the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Massachusetts, for sending us these two images of 2008 TC3 . Related: First images of asteroid 2008 TC3

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES This morning, the husband and wife observing team of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre forwarded to Astronomy an image and an animation of the asteroid 2008 TC3 they received from amateur astronomer friends in Italy. Imelda runs an image service company and is a contributor to Astronomy magazine. The International Astronomical Union named asteroid 6282 "Edwelda" after Imelda and Edwin. "Here's a sequence of photos...