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Joined May 2009
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19 Jun 2025
San Jose Giants @ModestoNuts
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4 Jul 2024
Launch of @fireflyspace #FLTA005 viewed from Santa Cruz California 2024-07-03 youtu.be/vfFKxFGIg8w?si=6tEa…

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10 May 2024
Ever wanted to learn more about supermassive black holes and how we study them? Dr. Dan Wilkins has got you covered! Come to KIPAC's public lecture on May 15th at 7pm to learn about how these black holes "eat" and impact cosmic evolution: bit.ly/astro-may15

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Are you a scientist or engineer who’d like to reach informal education audiences? Join NASA’s Universe of Learning for a webinar covering practical outreach strategies. Resources will be related to eclipses but can apply to any topic! Thurs. 2/29 @ 1pm PT zoomgov.com/meeting/register…
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22 Feb 2024
#IM1 signal watcher currently still live on YT.
22 Feb 2024
#IM1 landing now expected at 17:24 CST 6h = 23:24 UTC. Bochum streaming live 🔛 youtube.com/watch?v=2pPBCIpV…
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An animation showing hows Io's specular highlights change with changing viewing geometry. The highlights are rendered using a preliminary illumination model - the specular reflections are based on the Phong illumination model. vimeo.com/914591010?ref=tw-s…
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14 Oct 2023
Eclipse peekaboo
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14 Oct 2023
Eclipse view from GOES-East satellite. Data from star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fu…
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18 Apr 2020
AR Quick Look (Augmented Reality) globes of Asteroid Bennu from @OSIRISREx Mission data. Viewable in Safari on devices running iOS 13 or later. mandelbits.com/arworlds.html
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12 May 2020
Asteroid Bennu from ~25m. From @OSIRISREx data. flic.kr/p/2j17cU4
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29 Oct 2020
Stow of >1kg of asteroid Bennu ready for Utah delivery on 9/24/2023. @OSIRISREx TAGSAM (re-timed). #tobennuandback
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10 Dec 2020
Cross-eyed stereo view of @OSIRISREx sampling area at asteroid Bennu. Image processing scientist @DrBrianMay. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Source: asteroidmission.org/crosseye…
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6 Aug 2023
FYI for anyone who processes JunoCam raw data and is coming up with huge image start time adjustments - a second version of the CK SPICE Kernel was released two days after V01, which correct the issue. naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/J…

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4 Aug 2023
1700 JunoCam images of Jupiter system (processed to increase visibility of Galilean satellites) from perijove 49 close pass of Jupiter through apijove and into the descent towards pj 50. 4K
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3 Aug 2023
I wonder if Journal Publishing Services have the rights to fine-tune LLMs on their archive of peer review interactions to create preliminary review bots. Also, wonder if future publishing service feature will be hosting chat bot tuned to answer questions about each article.
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1 Aug 2023
Io and Jupiter from JunoCam on Juno spacecraft's perijove 53 flyby of Jupiter. Imaged 42 hours ago at a distance of 74526 km from Io.
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31 Jul 2023
TIL my car's "Parking Brake" dashboard light has the overloaded function of "low brake fluid" light. (And staying on doesn't just mean a flakey brake lever switch.) Luckily wife has more sense than me.
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29 Jul 2023
While we are waiting for new images from Juno's upcoming Sunday PJ53 Jupiter pass, here is a quick review of PJ52 youtu.be/oF3uM2oSzCk

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9 Jul 2023
Gigapan - gigapan.com/gigapans/232878 © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T Gigapan Website - nev-t-gigamacros.com/
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