Planetary astronomer, poet, hunter of new & strange worlds. Connoisseur of fuzzy dots of light. Asteroid (10463). @AstroQUB; faculty @UCNZ from 2020. she/her
Jan 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ravit Helled with the first keynote. Uranus and Neptune represent a unique planetary class: not like terrestrial planets, not like small Jupiters. How do they form? What are they made of? Open questions! #IceGiants2020
Helled: For Uranus, Neptune, only mass and radius well-measured; otherwise, only J2 and J4 are available, with large uncertainties, so the gravity data are insufficient to constrain the composition and internal structure #IceGiants2020
Sep 11, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Orbits and when to get excited: a thread
There's a lot of excitement in the last day or so about a candidate near-Earth asteroid that has the temporary designation #gb00234. This object is currently listed on the Possible Comet Confirmation Page minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/pccp_t…