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  1. The AT125EDL is my planetary scope, and shows nice details. The seeing I would rate at 4/5, as in "it felt like you were looking up through 4 feet of water" so really terrible - plz don't hold that against the 'scope. By this point the Great Red Spot was starting to come around the corner, and the cool kissing tadpoles are rotating out of view. This are lots of fine details visible now.

    #AmateurAstronomy #Jupiter #WaveSharp

  2. Today in the Planetary Science Journal:

    Kim et al. 2024, "Numerical Investigation of the Cohesive Strength Regime of the Bilobated Arrokoth after the Sky-crater-forming Impact Event" - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    Suggesting quite high cohesive strength for #Arrokoth .

    Hmm...

  3. Today in the Planetary Science Journal:

    DeCoster et al. 2024, "Statistical Analysis of Near-surface Structure and Material Properties on Momentum Transfer in Rubble Pile Targets Impacted by Kinetic Impactors" - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    #DARTMission

  4. Today in the Planetary Science Journal:

    Stickle et al. 2024, "Tour of Asteroids for Characterization Observations (TACO): A Planetary Defense Asteroid Tour Concept" - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    @schmemela , @asrivkin , and company present a new concept for a flyby mission that visits numerous near Earth asteroids.

    Including #1998OR2 , which was one of the last asteroids imaged by #TeamRadar with the #AreciboObservatory in 2020.

  5. I am begging our planetary governments to take radical action ASAP to slow the #ClimateCatastrophe before things get even worse.

    / #Oregon #ClimateActionNow #ORelse #Smoke #Fires

  6. Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with #HARPS-N - a wide-orbit planetary companion in the hot-Jupiter system HD 118203: aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2024 -> Super-Jupiter from the Great Bear: portal.umk.pl/en/article/super - it has a mass as much as 11 times that of Jupiter, orbits its star in 14 years and has a temperature of no more than minus 100 degrees Celsius.

  7. New blog post: Accessing Planetary Computer STAC files in DuckDB - see blog.rtwilson.com/accessing-pl

    This is a report of my experimentation on how to access STAC GeoParquet files provided by Planetary Computer in DuckDB - I struggle a bit with authentication and libraries, but get it working after a while.

    #geospatial #python #duckdb #PlanetaryComputer

  8. Do you like planetary caves?
    Here's an article with links to two OPEN ACCESS (whoo-hoo!) papers in JGR Planets.
    Article describes science and engineering issues and needs around planetary cave research. And gives an inventory of suspected caves around the Solar System.
    (Am co-author on both. My Titan cave paper is in proof stage, I'll toot that out at a later point.)
    news.nau.edu/space-exploration

    #astrodon
    #PlanetaryCaves
    #astrobiology
    #karst

  9. Im Rahmen der Planetary Defense Conference findet in dieser Woche wieder eine Übung statt, in der ein hypothetischer Asteroiden-Einschlag droht. Planetare Verteidigung: Übung für bevorstehenden Asteroideneinschlag
  10. #SantéPlanétaire #PlanetaryHealth #PlanetareGesundheit #LimitePlanétaire #planetaryBoundary Plus de 40 experts alertent, dans la revue @Nature, sur le franchissement de 7 des 8 lignes rouges planétaires. Ces seuils fatidiques concernent principalement le climat, la biodiversité, l’eau douce, ainsi que les cycles de l’azote et du phosphore. liberation.fr/environnement/cl Limites planétaires
    Des chercheurs expliquent dans «Nature» pourquoi la Terre menace de devenir inhabitable

  11. Mass Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration/Europa (MASPEX) will analyze gases — both in Europa’s faint atmosphere and in possible plumes. It will study the chemistry of the moon’s suspected subsurface ocean. #EuropaClipper #NASA #Jupiter #Moon #IcyMoons #Europa #Space #science

  12. Today in the Planetary Science Journal:

    Vincent et al. 2024, "Macroscale Roughness Reveals the Complex History of Asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos" - iopscience.iop.org/article/10. .

    More #DARTMission science in advance of the #HeraMission arriving back at #Didymos .

  13. The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference () has been held in since 1970 when the first results from the mission were presented. This year will be the last in Texas, and the organizers are searching for a new location.

    This abstract "Ethics in choosing a meeting location" describes some of the issues that should be considered. "Is Texas safe for all members of our community? Unfortunately, the answer in 2023 is NO, they are not."

    hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023

  14. What's your favorite planetary postcard from '22?

    #DARTMission impacts an asteroid go.nasa.gov/3Gh6ciG
    @MarsCuriosity marks a decade on Mars go.nasa.gov/3Gh6R3E
    @NASAWebb eyes Jupiter go.nasa.gov/3WlIwzb
    #JunoMission encounters Europa go.nasa.gov/3WjSwJb
    #NASASolarSystem

  15. Microbiomes drive Planetary Health: Unter diesem Titel bündeln 30 Wissenschafter*innen um den Uni Wien-Mikrobiologen Michael Wagner ihre Kompetenzen. Gemeinsam möchten sie erforschen, wie Mikrobiome die Gesundheit unseres Planeten steuern und mit diesem Wissen das Verständnis des globalen Wandels und Lösungen für eine nachhaltige Zukunft entscheidend voranbringen. Mehr dazu ⤵ 🦠

    medienportal.univie.ac.at/medi

    @fwf #clusterofexcellence #microbiome

  16. NASA’s latest audacious planetary mission, Europa Clipper, has launched and started its five-and-a-half-year journey to the Jovian system. The target of this mission is the small, icy moon Europa, a world that offers a tantalising possibility that it may be habitable.

    Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely examines the path that led to the agency’s largest interplanetary spacecraft to date, and how insights from four historical missions built the case for studying this moon in particular.

    spaceaustralia.com/news/europa

    #SpaceAustralia #EuropaClipper #Astrodon #SpaceExploration #Europa

    📸 New Horizons/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

  17. Andy Rivkin is a planetary astronomer who is helping to protect the Earth from asteroids 🌍 ☄️

    You can follow at:

    ➡️ @asrivkin

    Rivkin works on NASA's DART project (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_A) which is testing ways to steer dangerous asteroids away from us.

    Rivkin is based at John Hopkins University in Maryland, USA.

    #AndyRivkin #Astronomy #Astronomer #Astronomers #PlanetaryAstronomy #Asteroids #Asteroid #Space #Science #Scientist #Scientists #Academic #DART #NASA #DontLookUp