renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Thanks for the link to the paper. The Eureka article is citing spj.science.org/doi/10.34133... ("Preliminary Hot-Fire Test of Ammonium Dinitramide-Based Thrusters Based on Electrical Ignition") for some reason. 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I had the pleasure of suggesting the names "Eunicefoote" and "Keeling" for two minor planets. Both were named on 11 August 2025, for their respective contributions to the discovery of the effects of CO2 on the atmosphere. 120
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I was just told that the Chinese and English letters in the image show clear sign of AI hallucination. Pity. 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Hey! The image of the asteroid seems to be higher resolution than the one that was shared yesterday. Is that image you use in the composite a second, new image of the object, or is it a sharpened/upscaled version of the first one? 100
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Can you tell if that's a real image? Or an AI enhanced version of the other one? 100
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Did you notice the much higher resolution image in China Space Watch's most recent post (bsky.app/profile/chin...)? 100
Reposted by @renerpho.bsky.socialAndrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Tianwen-2 had arrived. Here's asteroid Kamo'oalewa seen from 20 km away www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8... 422181
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"further training in England" That wouldn't be for Operation Tiger, would it? 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"If you can see the tree you're about to hit, you're understeering. If you only hear it, you're oversteering." And: "You can't treat a car like a human being. A car needs love." Walter Röhrl is a funny guy. 070
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The video talks about how the model used in 2014 changed, and how more recent models predicted a much worse warming. 010
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026They updated their 2050 prediction in 2022, with a forecast that more closely matches what we're seeing now. The video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VweU... 110
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026They repeated the same thing in 2022, with an updated forecast based on more recent models. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VweU... 060
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Those two asteroids actually will come quite close to each other (without colliding), in November 2136. 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Someone at the NWS office likes their job it seems 🙂 010
Reposted by @renerpho.bsky.socialastrafoxen @astrafoxen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Last year I rewrote Wikipedia's article on Makemake and it's now featured on the front page!! i spent 2 months hyperfixating on this topic and doing all the research and writing. It was SO worth it :D Special thanks to @renerpho.bsky.social & others for reviewing it ^^ (1/12 thread) 🔭 #planetsci 58715
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026See the related study www.nature.com/articles/s43... from the April 2026 issue of the same journal, which found that hydrothermal systems at the Hapcheon crater in South Korea supported stromatolites for about 20-30,000 years, while the Ries crater in Germany may have done so for 250,000 years. 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 08/06/2026When is the last time that there has been an intraplate earthquake of this magnitude in the golf of Mexico? Is this the strongest ever? 110
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We don't have hummingbirds here. I hear they're quite common in some parts of your country. 010
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If that thing was fully loaded then there were over 1,300 tonnes of fuel on board. This blast is comparable to a small nuclear bomb. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaR6...youtube.comBlue Origin's Rocket Explosion - How Bad Is It?YouTube video by Scott Manley 040
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 26/05/2026But Dan, your third video link says this is a very rare event, which means it must be so! 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Blue, large beak... Yes, that name checks out. 010
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Husser (2013) agrees very closely with the Cranmer (2021) paper, in that they're violet. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26... 100
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A happy 100th birthday, David Attenborough. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.com‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthdayNaturalist says he has been ‘overwhelmed by greetings’ as milestone is marked with event at Royal Albert Hall 000
Reposted by @renerpho.bsky.socialDavid Rankin @asteroiddave.bsky.social · 08/05/2026New update to CSS Orbit View. Major performance boost. Here is a demo showing 10,000 named Main Belt Asteroids (blue) along with ~2500 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (purple) all running together in the browser. 🔭🧪 Instructions and files to make this at link: neofixer.arizona.edu/css-orbit-view 1265
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The one where it stands on top of the cactus is probably my favorite. 010
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Great shot! My brain played a trick on me when I first saw it. I thought it was something like a wild pig, looking to the left. 🙈 120
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Eh, that comet has completely disintegrated when it passed perihelion yesterday. 100
Reposted by @renerpho.bsky.socialDavid Rankin @asteroiddave.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Short video showing them cruising across the night sky! 27423
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 23/03/2026www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgEarth’s first major extinction was worse than we thoughtFossil finds suggest nearly 80% of life on Earth died some 550 million years ago 020
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I'm hearing reports that the comet has disintegrated around March 12. Not much more than a faint smudge in images taken at Siding Spring on March 15. 110
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The version that got published in Nature in 2026 is substantially different in its conclusions from the paper that appeared on arxiv in 2024. 000
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026From the Nature article (explaining why it took so long to publish): Observations obtained in 2025 support our interpretation of WOH G64 as a binary system ... However, WOH G64 currently exhibits optical features consistent with an RSG, rather than the B[e] characteristics observed during 2016–2021" 100
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026"WOH G64 has been claimed to have turned into a yellow hypergiant [...] Here we present spectra of WOH G64 obtained with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) between November 2024 and December 2025 [...] This implies that WOH G64 is currently a red supergiant, and may never have ceased to be" 100
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Compare arxiv.org/abs/2601.02057arxiv.orgA phoenix rises from the ashes: WOH G64 is still a red supergiant, for nowFor a long time, WOH G64 was known as the most extreme red supergiant outside our Galaxy. However, in a matter of years it has faded, its pulsations have become suppressed and the spectrum has become ... 100
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Yes. My comment was more about space.com having reported the lunar origin as a fact. 001
renerpho.bsky.social @renerpho.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This seems to completely contradict this from 2024: www.space.com/quasi-moon-k...space.comEarth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater"Like detectives, we used all known information regarding this Kamo‘oalewa and the lunar surface to derive a scenario for the origin of this object, starting from the impact that produced the Giordano... 100
