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Colin Snodgrass

@colinsnodgrass

Astronomer and planetary scientist at the University of Edinburgh, working on comets and the @cometintercept mission

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Joined August 2009
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ESO@ESO8 Jul 2024
Sleeping beauty awakens in La Silla! 🌼 This picture shows the “desierto florido” (the flowering desert). It occurs in the Atacama Desert 🏜️, home ESO's observatories, on the rare occasions when rain falls, complemented by the right temperature ℹ️👉 eso.org/public/images/potw24…
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Ewan Moore@EMoore_5 Jul 2024
"Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive"
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Jim Geach@jgeach1 Jul 2024
We are currently recruiting for 4 new Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Maths to support our Data Science teaching: jobs.herts.ac.uk/go/060255
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It's 5 years to the day since @esa selected our mission as the top candidate for its 1st F-class mission. 🎉 After years of hard work, we continue to grow more excited as our 2029 launch approaches! Here are team members at the recent Science Working Team meeting at ESTEC. ☄️
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Amazing Maps
@amazingmap18 Jun 2024
In 2017, the number of non-voters in the UK General Election outnumbered the winning candidate in 551 out of 650 constituencies
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DARA Big Data@DARABigData17 Jun 2024
New DARA funded postdoctoral #fellowships across the #Africa VLBI countries! Details on link below, application deadline 21st July. Please share with anyone who would be a good fit. dara-project.org/postdoc-fel…
Postdoc Fellowships | dara-project

Postdoc Fellowships | dara-project

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Irvine Welsh@IrvineWelsh14 Jun 2024
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The best set of policies I have seen from any party yet.
Count Binface (@CountBinface) profile pictureCount Binface
@CountBinface16 May 2024
Five first steps for change.
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Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill7 Apr 2024
Is this is now considered #StarWars canon in Chile?🇨🇱 🍺
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ESA Science
@esascience4 Mar 2024
#CometInterceptor will be the first mission to visit a pristine comet — one entering the inner Solar System for the first time 👋 Here are top 5 mysteries Comet Interceptor aims to solve: 🔎 What does such a comet look like up close? ☄️ How are pristine comets different from the comets we know? 💫 What was the early Solar System like? 🧬 What is the role of comets in the appearance of life on Earth? 🦕 Should we be worried about a comet striking Earth? Find out more about each of these questions 👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/… #SolarSystemExplorers
Infographic showing the structure of a comet on the left: plasma tail, hydrogen envelope, nucleus, dust tail, coma. On the right side, images of three different comets are inserted: comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang, comet Hale-Bopp, comet NEOWISE

ALT Infographic showing the structure of a comet on the left: plasma tail, hydrogen envelope, nucleus, dust tail, coma. On the right side, images of three different comets are inserted: comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang, comet Hale-Bopp, comet NEOWISE

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ESA built a TIE Fighter! (I assume @mggtTaylor had something to do with this)
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@esaoperations19 Feb 2024
ERS-2 spotted! 📸🛰️ The ESA satellite is on a tumbling descent that will lead to its atmospheric reentry and break up this week. These images of ERS-2 were captured by @heospace for @spacegovuk using cameras on board other satellites. #ERS2reentry
ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ALT ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 23:35 UTC, 28 January 2024

ALT ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 23:35 UTC, 28 January 2024

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 23:49 UTC, 29 January 2024

ALT ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 23:49 UTC, 29 January 2024

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 03:43 UTC, 3 February 2024

ALT ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 03:43 UTC, 3 February 2024

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Jones, G.H., Snodgrass, C., Tubiana, C. et al. The Comet Interceptor Mission. #SpaceSciRev 220, 9 (2024) doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-0… #OpenAccess We describe the scientific rationale for the mission, as well as a description of the project’s payload and mission design. @CometIntercept
The Comet Interceptor Mission

The Comet Interceptor Mission

Space Science Reviews - Here we describe the novel, multi-point Comet Interceptor mission. It is dedicated to the exploration of a little-processed long-period comet, possibly entering the inner...

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amen to that. Good kitty.
Emmett Initiative (@Emm_Initiative) profile pictureEmmett Initiative@Emm_Initiative31 Dec 2023
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We are delighted that a film is being made about one of our co-founders, Tim Stead. Tim Stead’s life story is a truly inspiring one, and we hope this documentary can spread his magic far and wide! Please support this crowdfunder to make this happen. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tim-stea…
Tim Stead: Magician With Wood

Tim Stead: Magician With Wood

We aim to raise £34,871 to complete and market this film about Tim Stead: the story of a man, a tree, a wood and a sculpted home.

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Today marks the point that comet Halley gets to aphelion (furthest point from the Sun) and starts its return. We are celebrating with a meeting at the RAS: ras.ac.uk/events-and-meeting…
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Dinkinesh is full of surprises! It’s satellite is actually a contact binary!!! The first ever contact binary moon 🤩 Thank you @LucyMission! What an amazing start! Image credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL science.nasa.gov/missions/lu…
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This is why we explore. Turns out that asteroid Dinkinesh is… asteroids Dinkinesh? During the #LucyMission’s first asteroid flyby on Nov. 1, we discovered that the main belt asteroid is a party of two, or binary pair! go.nasa.gov/40pe1eE
Two asteroids against black space. The larger is a diamond-shaped gray dusty rock lit from the right. The smaller, mostly spherical rock is visible behind the larger’s lower right edge. This image was taken at 11:55 EDT (16:55 UTC) Nov 1, 2023, within a minute of closest approach, from a range of approximately 270 miles (430 km). From this perspective, the satellite is behind the primary asteroid. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

ALT Two asteroids against black space. The larger is a diamond-shaped gray dusty rock lit from the right. The smaller, mostly spherical rock is visible behind the larger’s lower right edge. This image was taken at 11:55 EDT (16:55 UTC) Nov 1, 2023, within a minute of closest approach, from a range of approximately 270 miles (430 km). From this perspective, the satellite is behind the primary asteroid. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

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Our team have had a very productive Science Working Team meeting at @esa #ESTEC this week! @esascience
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It still doesn't feel real, somehow, but sadly it is. My brother has left us, far far too early. For those who knew him, please do share your memories here: keithsnodgrass.muchloved.com…
Tribute to Keith Snodgrass, 1983 - 2023

Tribute to Keith Snodgrass, 1983 - 2023

Dedicated to the memory of Keith Snodgrass

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ESO@ESO4 Sep 2023
This is how the opening frame of #TheLionKing 🦁 may have looked like, had the story been set close to the #ELT construction site in the Chilean Atacama Desert, rather than the African savannas! 😁 1/ Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw23… 📷 E. Garcés/ESO. Ack.: N. Dubost
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