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Posts by Comet Interceptor

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A Lego comet interceptor spacecraft held up in front of a blurry computer screen showing a zoom call.

A Lego comet interceptor spacecraft held up in front of a blurry computer screen showing a zoom call.

Remote attending a @cometinterceptor.bsky.social CoCa team meeting, and finding my Lego model to be very useful for orientating myself around the spacecraft!

4 months ago 15 2 2 0

Excellent, I'll have to tell my intern! He's been doing great work on #comet ☄️ orbits perturbed by non-gravitational forces from their outgassing. We have already presented results to the @cometinterceptor.bsky.social team, and hopefully we will write a #PlanetaryScience paper on the subject!

5 months ago 5 2 0 0
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Science In Action - Stephen Hawking gets it right again - BBC Sounds LIGO witnesses two black holes merge just how Hawking predicted.

Catch Colin Snodgrass talking ☄️ Comet Interceptor 🚀 on the BBC's Science In Action as well as @megschwamb.bsky.social on how important LSST will be for making small body discoveries: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from 8:30 minutes onwards!)

6 months ago 4 2 0 0

Hear from mission scientist Colin Snodgrass in his interview with @earthskyscience.bsky.social talking all things Comet Interceptor 🚀☄️

7 months ago 6 4 1 0
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VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II. From quiescence to glow: Dramatic rise of Ni I emission and incipient CN outgassing at large heliocentric distances We report VLT spectroscopy of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) from $r_{\rm h}\!\simeq\!4.4$ to $2.85$ au using X-shooter (300-550 nm, $R\!\simeq\!3000$) and UVES (optical, $R\!\simeq\!35k-...

Today on interstellar comet ☄️ 3I/ATLAS, this time from our team with ESO's VLT: the coma shows rich atomic nickel! This entirely natural metal emission from grains was only recently (last 4 yrs) identified in Solar System comets, was in 2I/Borisov, & now in 3I. 🔭🧪
Rahatgaonkar et al, ApJL submitted

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Catching Comets: Rosita Kokotanekova’s Vision for Planetary Defence and Discovery | International Space Science Institute Listen to her engaging TEDxVitosha presentation, Dr. Rosita Kokotanekova, Planetary Science Discipline Scientist at ISSI.

Catching Comets for Planetary Defence! 🛡️✨

In her #TEDx talk, ISSI Discipline Scientist @kokotanekova.bsky.social is shining a brilliant light on one of the most daring missions in planetary science: ESA’s Comet Interceptor.
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www.issibern.ch/catching-com...

@esa.int @cometinterceptor.bsky.social 🔭

8 months ago 5 2 0 0
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Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory!
Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! ☄️ Say hello to Comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third interstellar object ever spotted in our Solar System. Rubin Observatory didn’t discover it, but…

☄️ Say hello to Comet 3I/ATLAS, just the third interstellar object ever seen in our Solar System!

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory didn’t discover the comet, but even during testing, it caught a glimpse. Imagine what we'll find once full science operations begin later this year! 🔭🧪

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Analysis of Trajectories to 3I/ATLAS with a Comet Interceptor-like Spacecraft - IOPscience Analysis of Trajectories to 3I/ATLAS with a Comet Interceptor-like Spacecraft, Sanchez, Joan Pau, Snodgrass, Colin

🚀🚀 Could I have made it to interstellar object 3I/ATLAS? Find out in our latest research note! 🚀🚀

Analysis of Trajectories to 3I/ATLAS with a Comet Interceptor-like Spacecraft
doi.org/10.3847/2515...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

8 months ago 9 3 1 1

Check out Rosita Kokotanekova’s TEDx talk all about ME ☄️

8 months ago 6 2 0 0

It’s me 😎😎

8 months ago 3 0 1 0

Comet Interceptor is now on Bluesky!! ☄️🚀🛰️

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