Earth & Planetary Scientist and meteorite hunter. Working at the Space Science and Technology Centre, Curtin University. She/her.
Perth, Western Australia
Joined April 2010
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First #DARTMission results published today!
I had the pleasure of an early preview so I could share with you on the Conversation:
theconversation.com/new-resu…
New science results confirm our #DARTMission's asteroid deflection technology can be an effective way to change the orbit of an asteroid, should there ever be a threat. The DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into asteroid Dimorphos in Sept. 2022: go.nasa.gov/3YbKyBS
We know so little about how our own Solar System came to be.
Cameras from the Global Fireball Observatory in Alberta recorded the first rocky meteoroid ever from the Oort cloud, shedding some light on early formation.
Fantastic video from the team here: youtu.be/X6KHS1AmMpw
A 2 kg rocky meteoroid observed in February 2021 is shown to be coming directly from the Oort cloud, indicative of a high ice/rock ratio there (1-20%) and supportive of a massive proto-asteroid belt scenario. Vida (@meteordoc) et al.: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
Where did the last 10 years go? 7/12/12 I arrived in Perth, landed in the morning, turned up at Curtin University, and officially started my PhD (so I could start getting paid!)
Now I'm managing the project I came here to build, and met some amazing people along the way. ❤️
Excited to see yet another fireball dataset plotted this way. Easy to spot those that are meteorites!
Interested in the science of meteorite recovery? Our recent paper in the Astrophysical Journal details how to determine outcome of meteor events! The math is exemplified with selected #FRIPON detections, featuring the case of the #Cavezzo #meteorite:
iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Good luck finding pieces of this super special space rock !
Guess it didn't hit a roof or a person or we'd have found it already!
I can imagine the excitement of finding it your own back yard though.
Can't believe it was spotted before impact. What a beautiful fireball.
And check out the fab Conversation article written by @haaadry: theconversation.com/how-sate…
The magic of open source data / data sharing and multidisciplinary collaborations: @haaadry, @joshuasoderholm, @ProfAndyTomkins, @seamus_anderson, @RachaelLappan and team found the biggest meteorite strewn field since Murchison in 1969!
tinyurl.com/3zsu3nnb
The magic of open source data / data sharing and multidisciplinary collaborations: @haaadry, @joshuasoderholm, @ProfAndyTomkins, @seamus_anderson, @RachaelLappan and team found the biggest meteorite strewn field since Murchison in 1969!
tinyurl.com/3zsu3nnb
The story of the #Winchcombe meteorite is a fantastic demonstration of the power of collaboration in unravelling the mysteries of our Solar System.
First paper out today: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
...and The Conversation article I wrote to summarise:
tinyurl.com/44dzjjd4
What amazing times we live in. We were wowed tonight at the opening of @fugro's #SpAARC complex in downtown Perth. Soon to be running space command and remote operations on the moon! Showcasing once again Australia's world leading space capability.
tinyurl.com/2p8vxjby
#horizonslive, there are pieces of western Australia on board perseverance rover on Mars to help the search for life 😍
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The left galaxy is the Milky way, the right one the Andromeda galaxy. This is what will happen within 4 to 5 billion years from now
[📹 SaltyMikan + read more: buff.ly/3m1MX0W]
[2012 NASA model: buff.ly/39FAN8e]
Just writing an ARC grant to translate our program for finding meteorites in drone images (arxiv.org/abs/2203.01466) to search and rescue for @WA_Police ... so we can do this automatically in the future! Fab for my relevance section!
abc.net.au/news/2022-10-27/w…
Once again, pointing out that blue sky research and the quest for new knowledge is the driver for real breakthroughs and #innovation. You can make things cheaper and more cost effective as much as you like, but can only push existing knowledge so far!
Research in Australia's universities should be driven by curiosity, not commerce | Brian Schmidt theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The team @CurtinSpaceSci got some fab shots of #LucyMission in return 😊🛰️
youtu.be/bPpobdSNnqM
Hello, beautiful! As the #LucyMission passed by Earth recently, it captured this look at our planet. The upper left of the image includes a view of Hadar, Ethiopia, home to the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor fossil for which the spacecraft was named go.nasa.gov/3ssVDBf
ALT The full Earth appears as sphere against the blackness of space in this black-and-white view. Continents, oceans, and swirling clouds are visible.