#PlanetaryAstronomy picks of the day:

➡️ @mpsgoettingen - Research instit. in Göttingen, solar system studies (in German & English)

➡️ @mpi_astro - Astronomical research instit. in Heidelberg (in German & English)

➡️ @IRAP - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (in French)

➡️ @mustapipa - Astronomer at Helsinki Univ, discoverer of exoplanets

➡️ @megschwamb - Planetary scientist at Queen’s Univ Belfast

➡️ @profabelmendez - Planetary astrobiologist, dir of PlanetaryHabLab

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#PlanetaryAstronomy picks of the day:

➡️ @mustapipa - Helsinki Univ. #astronomer, discovered dozens of #exoplanets

➡️ @AlexSanterne - Expert on exoplanets at Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille

➡️ @mpsgoettingen - Max Planck Inst. for #SolarSystem Research

➡️ @eamonn_kerins - #Astrophysicist at Jodrell Bank Centre for #Astrophysics, #exoplanet hunter

➡️ @asrivkin - #PlanetaryAstronomer, helping protect Earth from #asteroids

➡️ @timlichtenberg - #PlanetaryScientist at Univ. of Groningen

Andy Rivkin is a planetary astronomer who is helping to protect the Earth from asteroids 🌍 ☄️

You can follow at:

➡️ @asrivkin

Rivkin works on NASA's DART project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test) which is testing ways to steer dangerous asteroids away from us.

Rivkin is based at John Hopkins University in Maryland, USA.

#AndyRivkin #Astronomy #Astronomer #Astronomers #PlanetaryAstronomy #Asteroids #Asteroid #Space #Science #Scientist #Scientists #Academic #DART #NASA #DontLookUp