Planetary astronomer. Handle is the Minor Planet Center's packed designation for 2004 PB112, a Kuiper Belt object in 27:4 mean motion resonance with Neptune.
Joined October 2011
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Dr Christa Van Laerhoven retweeted
. @DanaherCorp makes 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit comes from price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years.
Today, we shine the light. #PeopleOverProfits
It's time for $5 tests, @DanaherCorp. You could save hundreds of thousands of lives from TB.
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I'm at #CASCA2023 this week, looking forward to hearing about a lot of different things that Canadian astronomers are investigating!
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I tripped over the puppy when on a walk with him yesterday. Puppy appears to have taken no damage. I appear to have a sprained pinky finger from my fall.
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Dr Christa Van Laerhoven retweeted
Asteroid (10112) Skookumjim. The images are 54 second exposures taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in January 2006, with the second image taken about 5 minutes after the first.
Yay!
Two weeks after launch, @NASAWebb has hit its next biggest milestone: the mirrors have completed deployment and the next-generation telescope has taken its final form.
Next up for Webb? Five months of alignment and calibration before we start getting images:
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Dr Christa Van Laerhoven retweeted
What a parting shot. Solar array deployment as #JWST heads to its new home beyond the moon.
Dr Christa Van Laerhoven retweeted
💎 Lucy in the sky! Our #LucyMission lifted off at 5:34am ET (9:34 UTC). nasa.gov/lucy
