In case some astronomer has more #telescope time than what they know what to do with, I have a target-of-opportunity #asteroid observable right now: 2013 XV8 (apparent magnitude ~22.1 and rising). Today I've been going through an updated Karman+ mission target list and this guy has appeared […]

Got word that my abstract for the #EPSC-DPS conference was accepted. Wohoo! Those coming to the conference in Helsinki this year can look forward to my presentation about Karman+'s science data sharing plans - of course, among hundreds of other just as cool presentations. #asteroids

Spent a bit of time today working on the #openorb #asteroid orbit computation software (https://github.com/oorb/oorb).. good times. Might be time for a new version release very soon. Also turns out the software's #python bindings' build process is broken for something to do with some software […]

In the context of asteroid #space missions, #asteroids with high positional uncertainties are challenging when it comes to navigation. So, our relevant engineers want to know what kind of positional uncertainty to expect with our favorite targets […] [Original post on solarsystem.social]