I just finished setting up my first piece of hardware I purchased with my own grant $$ and guys...it feels so good! 🥹
Mallory Kinczyk, PhD
@stargirl32.bsky.social
Planetary Geologist | She/her | Stargirl wondering what this is all about... 💫
Join tomorrow's Ice Giant Systems Seminar featuring Dr. Susan Benecchi (@psi.edu)! Date: June 10th 11:00am EST Topic: The Kuiper Belt Binary and Color Context of the Outer Solar System More info: icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu #Uranus #Neptune #IceGiants #KBO
Join tomorrow's Ice Giant Systems Seminar featuring Matthew Belyakov (Caltech)! Date: April 8th, 11am EST Topic: JWST observations of the small satellites of Uranus/Neptune More info: icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu
The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Jared Isaacman, nominee to be NASA administrator, April 9 at 10 am EDT.
Just when I thought I couldn't love tea more than I already do! 😍 ☕
Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.
Space sustainability in today's @nature.com: 🛰️ How satellite constellations & #astronomy can learn to get along www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🛰️ Next steps for dark and quiet skies www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🙃 Stop Dropping Space Debris On Our Heads www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Here’s how researchers are fighting back
SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.
nature.com
Friends of Mercury at #LPSC2025, don't forget to join the Mercury community meeting tonight @ 5-6pm in Grogan's Mill room!
Our paper on the photometry of lunar swirls just dropped today!! "Photometry of Lunar Swirls in Comparison to Fresh Crater Ejecta" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Photometry of Lunar Swirls in Comparison to Fresh Crater Ejecta - IOPscienceSearch
Photometry of Lunar Swirls in Comparison to Fresh Crater Ejecta, Kinczyk, Mallory J., Denevi, Brett W., Sato, Hiroyuki, Boyd, Aaron K., Martin, Anna C., Speyerer, Emerson J., Hapke, Bruce W.
iopscience.iop.org
IM-2 lander laying on its side after landing yesterday. It's unfortunate but a spectacular image nonetheless.
It's finally here! A paper I've been awaiting for years. My former thesis advisor, Peter Goldreich, along w/ 2 colleagues, has finished a paper he's been working on a long time, explaining how Enceladus became what it is today. It's a fascinating & complex story about Enc's evolution into a ...\1
Hey, is that a giant space hamburger or am I just a bad gastronomer? www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst... 🧪 🔭
JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope
scientificamerican.com
The MExAG steering committee is heartbroken that our first in-person meeting was cancelled due to this.
The request to pause NASA PSD AG meetings is disturbing, though perhaps unsurprising given the pauses in meetings across federal agency related meetings across US based science.
Join next week's Ice Giant Systems Seminar featuring Dr. Patrick Irwin (Oxford)! Date: January 14th, 11am EST Topic: The Clouds, Storms, and Colours of the Ice Giant Atmospheres More info: icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu
Join tomorrow's Ice Giant Systems Seminar featuring Dr. Henry Garrett & Dr. Insoo Jun (@NASAJPL)! Date: January 9th, 11am EST Topic: A Brief Description of the JPL Uranian Radiation Model (UMOD) More info: icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu
Join the upcoming Ice Giant Systems Seminar featuring Dr. Raluca Rufu (SwRI)! Date: November 14th, 11am EST Topic: Coaccretion and giant-impact origin of the Uranus system More info: icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu