Colin Snodgrass
@colinsnodgrass
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Astronomer and planetary scientist at the University of Edinburgh, working on comets and the @cometintercept mission
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Joined August 2009
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👉 https://t.co/8tnkXXkJx4
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"Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive"
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We are currently recruiting for 4 new Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Maths to support our Data Science teaching:
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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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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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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. https://t.co/2vQUPAT9VZ
dara-project.org
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The best set of policies I have seen from any party yet.
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Is this is now considered #StarWars canon in Chile?🇨🇱 🍺
Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in.
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#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
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ESA built a TIE Fighter! (I assume @mggtTaylor had something to do with this)
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
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Jones, G.H., Snodgrass, C., Tubiana, C. et al. The Comet Interceptor Mission. #SpaceSciRev 220, 9 (2024) https://t.co/0sQYqU9rVz
#OpenAccess We describe the scientific rationale for the mission, as well as a description of the project’s payload and mission design. @CometIntercept
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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.
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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. https://t.co/5rjR0N4Kw2
crowdfunder.co.uk
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:
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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 https://t.co/pymSV0G4NN
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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! https://t.co/3aYWLvWmOw
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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
Dedicated to the memory of Keith Snodgrass
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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: https://t.co/HayNcpmTDQ 📷 E. Garcés/ESO. Ack.: N. Dubost
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