Kai Getrost

Astro-geek. Caver.

[Kai Getrost @KaiGetrost]

@verbiscer Nice. I helped bracket the south edge...

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@jeff_foust Too bad Insight couldn't have carried along a portable 1.2m 2400 rpm twin-rotor fan...

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@Alex_Parker https://t.co/bor8DbMdl6

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@BrewCityChaser @nascom1 @NASANewHorizons @NewHorizons2015 As I recall from talking to them, it was known pretty early on after MU69's discovery that the encounter would be 2019 Jan 1. The time/location uncertainties -- while still important to resolve to get useful data -- were lower than that.

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@FringeDoctor @AlanStern We need to rename the lobes to Ultima and Simon...

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@DJSnM As one of those amateurs who helped do that science, I cannot express the awesomenousness of this and yesterday's images.

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@Alex_Parker The LORRI image reminded me of thermal/FLIR images initially (i.e. glowing/emissive). Just a consequence of low phase angle, low lighting, low (compared to future pics') resolution? Or something else?

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@elakdawalla Sitting in the audience, I coulda sworn he said "Bamm-bamm", which in my mind would make the other one "Pebbles"...

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@AscendingNode Rode behind one of these up a mountain in WV once. Impressive what that gearing can do.

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@cavescience Or spend the last two weeks before a cave trip here:

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@AscendingNode @TodLauer

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@cavescience Yeah I noted the repeated references to "Fig. 1A" :)

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@cavescience And a nod to the Cleveland Grotto Science Fund; yay!

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@SciGuySpace @JeffBezos @torybruno Picked up by Aviation Week. Kudos: https://t.co/7xalQu3KNC : "...first reported by … Ars Technica"

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@d2386n @astrotweeps It was posthumous.

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@AscendingNode Always thought there was a guy with a bicycle wheel inside most satellites...

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@Alex_Parker Did a guy named Kent walk by just after and offer condolences on your meltdown?

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@cavescience All these protocols start like this I presume... https://t.co/e3nV1aZ4XE

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@AscendingNode But ya gotta like the classic Disney animation for malaria...