@carlrichell @system76 Literally just heard two talks about about the Paris Observatory's efforts to digitize their ~10,000 plate archive to improve the orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids #acm2023

@sundogplanets Your toots from #ACM2023 this week kind of make me wish I were a planetary scientist! 👏🏼

I'm just going to keep forlornly asking questions in the online question chat in the hope one of them actually gets through :D #acm2023 #roomwhereithappens

Up early and got to see the end of the TNOs session. Really nice to see how colours and spectra are starting to unpick the variation in the region! #acm2023

Woah. #DART massively deformed Dimorphous! The a/b ratio (longest axis to second longest axis) before impact was 1.02 (like a hamburger patty), but is now 1.3 (more sausage-ish) from multiple lines of evidence. That's huge, and a huge motivation for the ESA #Hera mission.

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Noon: discussing concept of country; there is no such concept as 'outer space' or 'outer country': land, sea and sky country are all connected #acm2023

Noon: the last time two of the stars in the Pleiades (Alycone+) were visually separated was about 100k years ago - but this is how they are described in accounts. A very old story (that's come down to us today)? #acm2023

Karlie Noon unpacking the cultural knowledge, seasonal indicators and astronomical knowledge in the Pleiades in Gamilaroi accounts #acm2023

Q: Won't the 40 m fall break the rover and its instruments?

A: Well we hope not.

(About the European rover on the Japanese MMX mission to the moons of Mars)

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Man-to Hui makes the entire auditorium (and online) crack up by emphasising that everyone should stay healthy so we can observe Phaetheon in 2089's total solar eclipse - the next best chance to confirm if its activity is due to sodium emission from baked rocks! #acm2023

Missing the part of conferences where there is excited chatter and debate about the talks after the session finishes #acm2023

Peter Brown pooping on the idea that the proposed interstellar meteor reported last year is in fact interstellar. There is 10s of km/s of speed uncertainty in the data. Actually matches much better as a normal asteroid impactor on the edge of typical error bars. But since the data is still classified, no one can tell. #acm2023

RT @ecfr: Huge thanks to our amazing speakers and Council Members for their invaluable contributions! Shoutout to the fantastic audience who made #ACM2023 a memorable event. 🙏 If you couldn't join us, don't worry! Catch all the action on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jdOX42Cow. 📺 https://t.co/Q9ov56DmuS

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RT @ecfr: .@AlexGabuev, Director at the @CarnegieRussia and @CarnegieEndow: " Russia is not the biggest animal in this world but definitely it´s consequential and the actions of Russia impact the entire ecosystem"

#ACM2023 https://t.co/7QIO2Fr6Yn

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RT @ecfr: "Before the war in Ukraine we were told in Africa we could not do gas; then we suddenly told to produce gas and even coal. You cannot change the narrative all the time" says @SongweVera, Nonresident Senior Fellow, @BrookingsInst

#ACM2023

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RT @ecfr: Dong Wang, Professor, Pekin University, @PKU1898: "China wants to defend its territory integrity and sovereignty & will become one of the global leading powers that have the respect from the international community – but not to become another hegemon"
#ACM2023 https://t.co/1SxXVZxj9n

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RT @ecfr: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, @HinaRKhar: “Please don't ask us to unlearn lessons we were taught for decades. We were told this is global village. But now you ask us to accept to change the rules because they are no longer in your interests" #ACM2023 https://t.co/fBI38s7hWM

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Strong insightful speech by @SwedishPM @ecfr #ACM2023

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RT @jana_puglierin: -⁦@PlJonson⁩ arguing strongly for a more strategic approach towards supporting Ukraine. Ukrainians do not need to prove over and over again that they deserve our support. We need more long-term thinking. #ACM2023 https://t.co/kzk6nFajcv

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RT @lykkefriis: “Please do not ask us to unlearn lessons we were taught for decades.
We were told this is global village. But now you ask us to accept to change the rules because they are no longer in your interests. Selective amnesia must not be pursued” #acm2023 @HinaRKhar @ecfr https://t.co/iJvytgVAWQ

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