"The Guy from Irish TV" @NASA for 50 years (and counting)! Ex Foreign Hack @BBCNews @RTENews; now see/hear me live on space @BBC @RTE @NewstalkFM @AJEnglish etc
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Alma mater of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the mathematics Fields Medal.
Apr 6
Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, one of Iran’s top science and engineering institutions, was bombed tonight, and a number of schools reportedly damaged.
Founded in 1966 (as Aryamehr University), Sharif is a cornerstone of Iran’s scientific and academic life.
Striking and destroying universities and schools is not just an attack on buildings,it is an attack on a country’s future.
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Trying to think of somebody in the planetary science community who could pull this off.
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Observers in Ireland should watch out for a space re-entry event between 08:34 and 08:40 Irish Time on tomorrow (Saturday) morning. There is an *infinitesimal* chance that debris could land in the area of the Beara Penninsula, and eastwards to the Old Head of Kinsale.
8 May 2025
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New #update on the #reentry forecast of the #Kosmos 482 Descent Craft, with new orbital data, from our TU Delft TUDAT model:
10 May 7:34 /- 10.6 hr UTC
Link to blogpost with more details in next tweet.
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All these predictions are still /- ~4hrs, so a pass over West Cork is still entirely possible
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9 May 2025
Major cities in the spacecraft's path after the Ireland pass include slightly to the south of the following: London, Lille, Frankfurt and Budapest. Cosmos 482 remains far mor likely to fall harmlessly into the ocean, but observers should be on the lookout.
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9 May 2025
Great to see @SouthernStarIRL Skibbereen still keeping an eye on the Czar after 140 years😉 [It is virtually certain that the Cosmos 482 parachute will NOT function☹️]
ALT ChatGPT . Prompt: "create an image of a soviet venera spacecraft parachuting into The River Ilen in Skibbereen Cork"
9 May 2025
Observers in Ireland should watch out for a space re-entry event between 08:34 and 08:40 Irish Time on tomorrow (Saturday) morning. There is an *infinitesimal* chance that debris could land in the area of the Beara Penninsula, and eastwards to the Old Head of Kinsale.
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Poland is especially worried: On 19 February, a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage landed on a Polish farm, and the Polish space agency POLSA is keen to show it is on-the-ball.
polsa.gov.pl/wydarzenia/komu…
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11 Apr 2025
Congratulations to @stdominicscabra and @StFlannans on this win @nss . The prize is named after Gerard K O'Neill, who was inspired by the Bernal Sphere, a 1929 design by Irishman J. D. Bernal - a visionary polymath who has never been properly recognised in Ireland.
1 Apr 2025
St Flannan’s College
First Prize in the
2025 Gerard K O'Neill/NASA Ames Space settlement design contest. Over 26,000 students participated in more than
4,900 entries from 25 countries around the world.
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In 30 minutes the @framonauts will pass directly over the entire length of Ireland - the first orbiting humans ever to do so. Enjoy the view! It's a lovely day down here, so be sure to take some pics!
ALT @heavensabovecom
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26 Mar 2025
Luke O'Neill, a passionate defender of science. His principal message today was that ALL European universities are now open to US researchers. The ERC will fund suitable research in ANY European Union university. Come to Europe.
26 Mar 2025
With the great Leo Enright, Irish science champion, at a lunch where I spoke about the importance of the European Research Council for European science and competitiveness to the Irish branch of the Association of European journalists ahead of President Leptin’s visit next week.
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22 Mar 2025
Whoa: The @ESASolarOrbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail!
This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years.
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12 Mar 2025
I wonder does An Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD @dfatirl and @merrionstreet know that the first woman astronomer hired by the US Naval Observatory was Isabel Martin ? @janeematthews @louiseburne_
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12 Mar 2025
Isabel Martin Lewis (as she was known after marriage) was passionate about promoting STEM amongst the young. Her second book, "Astronomy for Young Folks", was one of many published during her lifetime. She had a column @Nature for thirty years.
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3 Nov 2024
Mná do Harris? It worked here - twice!
2 Nov 2024
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how desmoinesregister.com/story/… via @DMRegister
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22 Oct 2024
Well that was...... "unexpected"! An Irish hurley stick ( a camán) displayed @airandspace I can't for the life of me work out what it's doing there, but .........
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Dubliner David Wogan (bottom right) is on an insane mission to promote the greatest game in the world - and perhaps also the greatest game out of this world too! At the last count there are 139 Hurling Clubs in the US @GAA_USA Who will have the first puck on the moon? 😉
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Video: Did you know there are 139 Hurling Clubs in America? David Wogan, a Dubliner in California, has counted them and he's on a mission to promote the game. See his full interview on the West Coast Sevens Facebook page now.. @DubMatchTracker @GAA_USA @playhurling #GAA
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