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Planetary scientist & astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast: KBOs, Planet Four(Mars), exoplanets (Planet Hunters NGTS) ,LSST SSSC co-chair. Opinions posted are my own. Pronouns: she/her
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I'm not sure I believe that's a good phase folded light curve, but on the other hand it doesn't look like the observed period matches either. I think we need more data
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One of the great things about the asteroid community is that we're generally pretty collaborative, especially important because Planetary Defense is a global issue. So for YR4 we've had astronomers from around the world working together to compile and synthesize what we've got. 7/ 🔭
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Congrats to you and the newly minted Dr!
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Thanks for coming and thanks for contributing NI Science Festival
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Your Blue Sky post about the PDC simulation featured in my talk
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Yes the title inspiration was open.spotify.com/track/3Z0oQ8... because I can't use open.spotify.com/track/760jhR...
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I am sure that's part of the job too.
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You can read all of the reports from 1976 to now. NASA shares these reports online (that's transparency for you!).
spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/arch...
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I'm so sorry you're dealing with this.
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Let me know if you need any help with the relevant columns to pull out.
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You could grab the positions with uncertainties in orbit from JPL Horizons using astroquery astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jp...
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Apparently only a first author search. Everything else seems to break for me as well now.
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Interesting, I was doing a first author search and that worked. Searching abstracts is taking a long time, and I'm getting "This particular query is taking too long. Please wait a moment and retry. If the problem persits, our backend is likely overwhelmed and will be sluggish for a little longer. "