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Porter Ranch, Los Angeles
Joined August 2008
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at @NASAJPL has stood up an info page about asteroid #2024YR4. The NEO's probability of impacting our planet in 2032 has risen to more than 1% and is now a 3 on the Torino Scale. How #CNEOS is monitoring: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news…
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So many JPLers' lives have been upended by the #LAFires. AT LEAST 150 of our colleagues have lost their homes, and the scale of loss in Altadena will reverberate for years to come. If you can help, here's a resource: The Caltech JPL Relief Fund. giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-…
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Here it is in all its rotating glory (#2024ON has a rotational period of about 6 hours btw...)
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That one ALMOST knocked my @Dodgers @hellokitty off the shelf #earthquake earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua… – at Los Angeles, CA
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Farewell, #NEOWISE 🥲 Scientists and engineers of the asteroid-hunting mission gathered at @NASAJPL on Aug. 8 to celebrate the spacecraft as the final command was transmitted, turning off its transmitter. NEOWISE has now been decommissioned. Watch video: youtube.com/watch?v=fDm2fKAZ…
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Hello! Quake in Porter Ranch (91326). Quite the wobble #earthquake
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These radar images of #2024MK were captured by the DSN's Goldstone Solar System Radar in Goldstone, California. The transmitting antenna, DSS-14, is a beauty 📡 – at Los Angeles, CA
Just in time for #InternationalAsteroidDay: New radar imagery of 2024 MK from @NASAJPL’s Goldstone Solar System Radar. These images - taken when the #asteroid was about 240K miles away - reveal 2024 MK is about 500 ft. wide. Stay tuned for more #2024MK science.
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I've never seen a more excited spacecraft 😀 @EuropaClipper has arrived in Florida after its flight from @NASAJPL: jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-euro…
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Solar physicists right now – at Los Angeles, CA
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