Dr. Nick Attree on Mastadon

109 Followers
136 Following
123 Posts
Mostly retoots my bridged Bluesky account: @nickattree.bsky.social
Planetary scientist @iaacsic.bsky.social, working on
@esa.int's Rosetta & Comet Interceptor. Prev @tubraunschweig, @LAM_Marseille, @QMUL & @UoLeicester 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇪🇺
ORCID: 0000-0003-3344-6693
Homepagehttps://sites.google.com/view/nickattree
PronounsHe/Him
@vicgrinberg Haha that's fantastic. Thanks! Looking forward to meeting Micky
@vicgrinberg ESTEC has a cat?! I'm even more excited to be visiting there next month!

Recently, the German Society for Planetary Research was founded in #Münster. Congratulations! Web page and press release: https://www.planet-dgp.de 🔭

@uni-muenster.de

#DGP #planets #planetaryscience #planetaryresearch #solarsystem #solarsystemexploration #UniMuenster #DLR #MPSGöttingen #TUBraunschweig

I have a new Master student joining me for a #JAE-intro project on cometary dynamics and activity @[email protected] today, so it's time to break out the ol' pen and paper 😀☄️

Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added. Unified chargers, free roaming, travel, study and work everywhere in the EU, simple bank transfers with SEPA and Wero. EU makes life better. It' definitely not GoodEnough™ in all parts.Work remains to be done. And that's worth doing!

Originally from a Facebook post by the EU Commission, ALT text added by me.

#ThanksEU

"MemoryError: Unable to allocate 1.41 TiB for an array with shape (440447, 440447) and data type float64" Ah ...yeah.. ok fair enough! #OveryHonestMethods
I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.
https://xkcd.com/3193/

To avoid confusion with "highly eccentric orbits", we normally refer to these as "highly whimsical orbits".

https://xkcd.com/3189/

#astronomy

ugh
Hello from this rather idyllic Christmassy scene.