Andy Rivkin

@asrivkin
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Planetary astronomer on #TeamAsteroid. Gedankenband member and guitarist. Persistently Obstreperous. "Surprisingly nonchalant" according to Wired. He/him הנני 🌻 #USAstronomyGoodwillAmbassador ⊗
Bandcamp site!https://andyrivkin.bandcamp.com/
Google Scholar profile!https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aGVsk3IAAAAJ&hl=en
Random music/poetry blog!https://imperturbable-music.blogspot.com/
Andy RivkinNov 18, 2023
Show threadMichael BuschNov 13, 2023

@asrivkin @Josep_Trigo Now officially out in the Planetary Science Journal:

Roth et al. 2023, "ALMA Observations of the DART Impact: Characterizing the Ejecta at Submillimeter Wavelengths" - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acfcaa

#DARTMission

ALMA Observations of the DART Impact: Characterizing the Ejecta at Submillimeter Wavelengths - IOPscience

Andy RivkinOct 27, 2023
Nancy AtkinsonOct 26, 2023
After DART Smashed Into Dimorphos, What Happened to the Larger Asteroid Didymos? @asrivkin tells me about new observations using JWST to see how the parent asteroid is doing, post-DART impact. https://www.universetoday.com/163895/after-dart-smashed-into-dimorphous-what-happened-to-the-larger-asteroid-didymos/
After DART Smashed Into Dimorphous, What Happened to the Larger Asteroid Didymos?

NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) slammed into asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, changing its orbital period. Ground and space-based telescopes turned to watch the event unfold, not only to study what happened to the asteroid, but also to help inform planetary defense efforts that might one day be needed to mitigate potential collisions … Continue reading "After DART Smashed Into Dimorphous, What Happened to the Larger Asteroid Didymos?"

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Show threadAndy RivkinOct 23, 2023
@michael_w_busch @helvick Happy to be of help. ;)
Andy RivkinAug 8, 2023
FediFollowsAug 7, 2023

#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 RivkinJul 21, 2023
Andy RivkinJul 21, 2023

New #DARTMisson related paper! Observations of boulders knocked from a Dimorphos during the DART impact and subsequently tracked by HST!

Press release: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-008

Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ace1ec

#Astrodon

Andy RivkinJul 21, 2023

New #DARTMisson related paper! Observations of boulders knocked from a Dimorphos during the DART impact and subsequently tracked by HST!

Press release: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-008

Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ace1ec

#Astrodon

Show threadAndy RivkinJul 6, 2023
@megschwamb Thank you! I recognize that it's possible nobody caught the Benny Hill reference I made. ;)
Show threadAndy RivkinApr 22, 2023
@BrianWolven Yer.
Andy RivkinApr 22, 2023
OH: "I will be the phoenix that rises from the ashes of my own colon."
Andy RivkinApr 21, 2023
Managed to get a paper draft out to coauthors, so now I can do the other things that I was procrastinating even more. Or at least in theory I can do those things. ;)