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1. Table of asteroid parameters and Impact Prob from NASA. 2. Graph of Impact Prob from NASA over time. Sources: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4 https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/02/04/asteroid-2024-yr4-latest-updates/https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys/index.php?pc=1.1.2&n=2024YR4
Impact Probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth on Dec 22, 2032, based on additional measurements over the past 2 nights, is now near zero.
NASA CNEOS: 0.005%
ESA NEOCC: 0.002%
NEODys (Italy): 0.000444%
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having bad handwriting is all fun and games until you can’t even read your own notes from 2 hours ago
seems like either something super easy to game or another stat to get way too caught up in
especially since current music scholarships usually require you to major in it
it’s always kevin smh my head
Waning Gibbous Moon
Comet C/2023 A3
Andromeda
The Pleiades
Incoming comet post!
Finally had some clear skies this evening and I got to play with my Seestar properly. Not done any post processing/playing around with these yet, just straight off the scope.
I'm super super happy! 🔭
Last CUWiP!!
Some #AAS243 highlights! Had the most amazing time with my SAO Astro REU cohort and met up with my mentors, aNd presented my iposter :D!
Thank you!
Huge thank you to my advisors Molly Finn and Remy Indebetouw, as well as my god-advisor @profkelsey.bsky.social ! Also thanks to NRAO and the NSF for funding this work!
In our next work we will be looking at what the dense gas tracers HCO+ and HCN can tell is about the conditions of the molecular clouds in the Antennae Overlap
4) While some other SSC-forming galaxies are similar to the Antennae, several have properties in between normal and galactic center clouds
3) This puts the Antennae cloud properties in like with those at the centers of galaxies, even though the galactic centers aren’t forming SSCs
2) Antennae overlap molecular clouds have densities, pressures, and turbulent kinetic energies that are orders of magnitude higher than more normal, milky way-like galaxies
1) The densest Antennae overlap molecular clouds do not have significant thermal emission, indicating that they haven’t formed massive stars yet
With our CO data, as well as archival 3.6 cm observations, we found that:
What are super star clusters (SSCs)? They are the young analogs of globular clusters that are still being formed in galaxies. Studying their birth conditions can give us insight into how globular clusters formed.
We use ALMA CO(2-1) observations so study to study the conditions of the Antennae galaxies and learn why there able to form super star clusters
Happy last day of #aas243! My first paper is finally on arxiv today!
arxiv.org/abs/2401.04835
I’m presenting an iposter on wednesday at 5:30! If you’re interested in SED fitting and how nebular line emission can affect galaxy mass estimates come check it out! #AAS243 #AASNOLA
my first paper was just accepted for publication! summary post coming soon!
day 1 of #aas243 !
happy sunday!
en route to nola! #aas243
Our first event in #NOLA is TOMORROW!!!! Presented by NASA’s PhysCOS/COR at Howlin’ Wolf with two space presentations, trivia, prizes, giveaways, and more!
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