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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The way we wrote the report it summarises whole sessions and groups of talks and posters rather than specific talks with the limited citation space use to give examples representative of what results were discussed but by no means complete!

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paper day! It's not easy to fit all the science presented at a meeting as big as ACM in the word limit of a short report, but hey, we gave it a go! You can find the Nature Astronomy Meeting Report on Asteroids Comets Meteors 2026 here: rdcu.be/MvrGvwmXQsXa 🔭☄️🪨

An image provided by the publisher with the latest Nature Astronomy cover and the following text: "nature portfolio, Meeting Report, The 15th Asteroids Comets Meteors Conference. Springer Nature"

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's for sure excellent for morale and building community

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Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In reporting this, I learned that Russia launched a big space mirror in the 90s. Retrospective pieces c. 2015 were like "what a crazy, supervillain-y idea!" Now the idea is back, being taken seriously, and shining light (sorry) on the shortcomings of space law. 🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/refl...

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Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky

A space satellite that would offer light on demand has astronomers asking: Who controls the night sky?

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Nevermore L. Hoffman 🐦‍⬛🎃 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glares in astronomer 😡

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Do not finish your talk on a "thank you" or "contact details" slide. Give a brief summary of your main points!

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse vibes 🌚🌞 🇪🇸

Partial solar eclipse as seen projected through a colander. The shadow of the colander is cast on a cream umbrella and the holes are projections og the Sun partially obscured by the Moon, looking like someone took a bite

Children looking at eclipse through proper exlipse glasses. The sun is a bright blob in the distance

People looking at eclipse, the Moon casts wide shadow on the sky and Earth

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We stand prepared! 🌚🌞

A collander, an essential piece of eclipse hunting equipment, in glorious Spanish sunshine. For now it is throwing a very ordinary shade.

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Black cab! (Very limited amounts of riddiculous pickup trucks here)

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's nothing cooler than Astronomy with preschoolers 🙂 The group at Carrots and Peas nursery in Poznań was very enthusiastically studying the ejecta made by throwing rocks at trays filled with layers of flour and cocoa... planetary defenders in training! 🥰 🪨🛰

A brown display board at a kindergarten with brown and white prints of craters made with cocoa and flour pinned. The card in the centered says Making Moon Craters with our favourite Astronomer Miss Agata Rożek

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wonder how similar it will be to Kamoʻoalewa in appearance. The radar bandwidth doesn't change enough to suggest much elongation...

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Richard's contact binary table is here: recannon.github.io/contact_bina... 🔭🪨

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Contact Binary Models

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Putting the "Asteroids" in "Asteroids, Comets, Meteors" #ACM20206 🪨🐐🐐

Agata smiling while leaning on an inflatable model of asteroid Bennu

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Why are you not here in Poznań with us? 🪨 ayway, happy to chat all things contact-binary

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@asrivkin.bsky.social talking Diversity of Low-Albedo Small Bodies at #ACM2026Poznań #ACM2026 🔭🪨

Andy Rivkin at a lectern on a stage with ACM 2026 branding with a slide on low-albedo objects on a massive screen behind him

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Harrison Agrusa @harrisonagrusa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve been exploring gravitational reaccumulation after asteroid catastrophic disruptions and am finding contact binaries are super common outcomes! I can’t help but notice how similar Torifune looks compared to this fragment from one of my simulations, which I will present tomorrow at #ACM2026

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Can I recommend my student Richard Cannon's talk at 17:00 on Wednesday, 8th July for contact binary appreciation through radar illumnation 🔭📡🪨

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hey look at that Torifune there, contact-binarying away like it has no care in the world 🔭🪨☄️

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

ACM is in sight! Getting some family sightseeing time before the conference kicks off! 🔭🪨☄️ #ACM2026Poznań #ACM2026

A view of Poznań from "Brama Poznania" museum in Cathedral Island, featuring the venue for ACM 2026 conference and a red bridge

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Unfortunately Vienna is about as far as you can be from Alps and still in Austria, but the closest are like 1.5h by train!

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Astronomy needs dark, quiet skies, but light and radio pollution from growing space activity is putting them at risk. 🛰️ The Group of Friends for Dark and Quiet Skies has created a survey to help inform international discussions on protecting our Dark and Quiet Skies - and wants to hear from you. ⤵️

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The unofficial leaked info is that the talks won't be recorded. Three live-streams will be offered to the remote participants, one from each of the conference rooms.

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I dread asking the LOC right now as they're busy with last-minute issues, but I'll ask them when I see them on Sunday and let you know if it's not shared before then!

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

No heatwaves scheduled for #ACM2026Poznań (meteo.imgw.pl/pogoda?lat=5... ) though many other exciting things are (acm2026.eu) 😍 See you in Poznań, space rock-and-ice-in-varying-proportions people! 🐐🐐💙 🔭 🪨☄️

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METEO IMGW-PIB | Serwis pogodowy

Serwis pogodowy IMGW. Prognoza pogody na nadchodzące dni, ostrzeżenia meteorologiczne, temperatura, zachmurzenie, opady. Zdjęcia satelitarne

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ESO @eso.org · 01/07/2026

Reflect Orbital aims to launch 50,000 mirror-like satellites to provide sunlight at night, with reflected beams spanning at least 5 km on Earth's surface. This image illustrates how scattered sunlight would increase the overall brightness of the sky above the VLT. 🔭 🧪 ☄️ #DarkSkies 3/4

Two circles shows the night sky view from ESO's Very Large Telescope. The left image was captured with an all-sky camera on a moonless night. The image to the right is a simulation showing how much brighter the sky would be with Reflect Orbital’s full constellation of 50 000 mirrors. Even though the mirrors are not pointing directly at the observatory, they still diffuse light sideways, which is then further scattered by the atmosphere. The sky would be up to three to four times brighter.

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What specific date/time is this for?

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's good to know that astronomers naming things punely is not a dying art

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you're a big international organisation, surely you can afford to pay an actual human voice actor...

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Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Along with LSST start 🎉 also out today is Thiele et al. reporting the CRASH Clock is at 2.5 days 👀 That's how long it'd take for satellites to start crashing into each other if they lost maneuvering capability 🛰️ When the authors first shared on arXiv in June 2025, it was at 5.5 days… Seems fine 🔭

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A new CRASH Clock measures the chance of satellite collisions, and it’s ticking down fast

How prepared are we for a solar storm, bad software update or cybersecurity event that could trigger widespread loss of satellite control?

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There really really needs to be "thanks, I hate it" button 🛰

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 30/06/2026

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Why does the image on the left look like something out of Pandemic (the board game) 🫣

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A bit less excited about my trip down South next week 💀☀️

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Obviously, you need to save Bruce Willis for the Muppet version of Armageddon 🪨

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Agata Rożek @agastro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The 2029 edition will be called ACMI

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