Sabina Raducan

PostDoc @unibern. Planetary Scientist. Planetary defender #DARTMission #Hera

[ESA Earth Observation @ESA_EO]

👩🏻‍🔬The @ISSIBern and ISSI‑BJ call for proposals for International Teams in the Space & Earth Sciences is now open.

The call invites scientists worldwide to submit research projects that make use of data from space missions.

Deadline: 13 March 2026
https://t.co/VHJ1VWpXaP

[Ian @deepbluedot]

#HeraMission flying 295km from Deimos on its way to asteroid Dydimos. What a fantastic view

[ESA's Hera mission @ESA_Hera]

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Hera’s latest image of Mars
Image acquired: 4 March 2025
Distance to Mars: 6.3 million km
Mars flyby: 12 March 2025
Stay tuned…

[European Space Agency @esa]

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth in 2032 has risen to 2.8%.

This means that it has surpassed the chance of impact briefly held by the much larger asteroid Apophis back in 2004.

Learn more about why the impact probability is increasing and why it could quickly drop to 0 as we improve our understanding of the asteroid’s orbit ➡️ https://t.co/UFGZgCgJwd

[Ian @deepbluedot]

First time in history you can follow a mission through AI version of the spacecraft using real images, telemetry and much more. It will blow your mind !

[Tariq J. Malik @tariqjmalik]

ICYMI, this was our last view of @ESA_Hera's asteroid mission as it leaves Earth behind for asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos, via Mars. Shot from @SpaceX's Falcon 9 upper stage.

What a view.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Deployment of @ESA’s Hera confirmed

[Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ]

#Congrats to @AschbacherJosef and the entire @esa team as well as @SpaceX for this flawless launch. I watched from Tokyo! 🚀

Can’t wait to see what HERA will find out about Dimorphos and the changes @nasa’s DART caused by its 🎯🪨

Def going to wear my #DartSplash T tomorrow!

[Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ]

Guess what I am doing @esa @SpaceX

[Raphael Marschall @SpaceMarschall]

We have liftoff... and a successful launch of @ESA_Hera ! Congratulations to the team of @esa and @SpaceX 🥳 Follow Hera's journey on https://t.co/QoxGyHDwSJ will explore the binary asteroid system of Didymos-Dimorphos and examine the changes after the DART impact.

[Ian @deepbluedot]

#HeraMission truly is a marvellous wonder 🤩 Absolutely love this spacecraft

[Ian @deepbluedot]

Exactly two years ago was one of the most emotional moments of my life watching DART impacting asteroid Dimorphos. A dream started in 2005. What an incredible achievement by @JHUAPL @NASA #HeraMission is ready to go back 🚀

[Sabina Raducan @sd_raducan]

@samleejackson Congratulations! 🎉🥳 What new adventure awaits you?

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.

A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.

The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.

Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.

A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.

You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!

These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.

If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

[ESA Operations @esaoperations]

ESA has received permission to begin preparing a mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis. ‘Ramses’ will be designed to accompany Apophis through its close and incredibly rare flyby of Earth in 2029.

https://t.co/FS1gzQ7qyv

[Springer Nature @SpringerNature]

What would happen if a spacecraft collided with an asteroid? The asteroid moon Dimorphos may have been reshaped following the impact from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), according to a paper published open access in @NatureAstronomy: https://t.co/bxKxLg2fet

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

When we crashed into this asteroid, we found:
- it was more rubble than solid
- we changed its orbit
- we changed its shape
Great info to help protect Earth from the next big one.
Details here: https://t.co/crpky7b6TY @NASA

[Swiss National Science Foundation @snsf_ch]

New multilateral programme MAPS: Call for proposals for Joint Research Projects including Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Switzerland. Submission deadline: 01.07.2024 https://t.co/wUzF6NJyZg