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Anicia Arredondo
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Planetary scientist at SwRI studying H2O on the Moon and asteroids. I like baseball and dogs (she/her)
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The @accuweather.com acct hasn't posted here on Bluesky in two months but they did put this map together on their other socials, showing verified shots of the 11/11 aurora in all 50 states. Solar Cycle 25 has defied expectations and has been giving us a show for a year and a half.

#northernlights
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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For the folks that are still struggling with this. Here is a Venn Diagram.
#3I/Atlas #3I 🔭
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for baseball
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Really feeling this tonight
Game 3 of the 2018 world series
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
If you've ever wanted an author to explain their entire paper, here is me explaining this entire paper. JWST spectroscopy of asteroid Polana and why I think the Polana family is the origin of NEA Bennu. #planetaryscience 🔭
✨ Anicia Arredondo chats about near-Earth asteroid (142) Polana and where this exciting research may take us next.

The Author Series highlights not only the science, but also the people behind it — connecting authors, their stories & the #astronomy community. youtu.be/JUgNSPv94LI 🔭
AAS Journal Author Series: Anicia Arredondo on 2025PSJ.....6..195A
YouTube video by AAS
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#JWST proposal deadline day. I am PI for 4 and Co-I on 7, that means at least one of them will get selected right? Right?? 🙃
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The mirror's spherically aberrated
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New #planetaryscience paper! #JWST spectra of (142) Polana, the parent body of the new Polana asteroid family. We compare Polana to Bennu and Ryugu to test hypotheses that both NEAs came from the new Polana family.
doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...
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August 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Today is the deadline to submit an abstract for #GSAConnects2025
🧪🔭#PlanetaryScience
Call for abstracts for the #GSAConnects2025 meeting Oct 19-22 in San Antonio. Yours truly is chairing a session that connects meteorites, remote sensing, and spacecraft observations of asteroids. Abstracts are due August 5. We hope to see you there! 🧪🔭 #PlanetaryScience
August 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New JWST proposal templates have a font size of 14 😂
August 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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July 29, 2025 marks 67 years to the day since the founding of NASA. NASA Spinoff—a section of the US space agency’s technology transfer program—compiles just about every commercial technology that has originated in US space research, from freeze-dried food to wireless vacuum cleaners.
July 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
New paper! I observed the three largest members of the Eurybates family (the parent body is a target of the Lucy mission) with NIR spectroscopy to see if there were changes in the spectra as the asteroids rotated. 🔭🧪
www.doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ade67a
Rotationally Resolved Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Three Large Eurybates Family Members - IOPscience
Rotationally Resolved Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Three Large Eurybates Family Members, Arredondo, Anicia
www.doi.org
July 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Interstellar visitor confirmed.
#A11pl3Z is now known as 3I/ATLAS. It is only the third confirmed object from beyond our solar system.
July 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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In addition to these never-before-seen cosmic neighbors, Rubin detected another ~1800 previously-known asteroids, bringing the total detections to just under 4000 in just 10.5 hours!🔭🧪

In other words, over half of Rubin's first detections are new discoveries☄️
June 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I really like this video showing some of the 2104 asteroids found in 10 hours of data - really gives a sense of how Rubin's view of the changing sky will be different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmI...
A Swarm of New Asteroids
YouTube video by NOIRLabAstro
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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WHAT
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Call for abstracts for the #GSAConnects2025 meeting Oct 19-22 in San Antonio. Yours truly is chairing a session that connects meteorites, remote sensing, and spacecraft observations of asteroids. Abstracts are due August 5. We hope to see you there! 🧪🔭 #PlanetaryScience
May 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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May 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I love days where I learn something new
May 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What a funny looking neck
April 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A look at my camera roll from 1 year ago on eclipse day. We were supposed to see 4.5 minutes of totality, but the clouds had other ideas. Luckily, they thinned out long enough for me to get one photo! 🌞 🌝 🤠
April 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Game 3 of the 2018 world series
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
April 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I defended my dissertation 4 years ago today! I purposefully scheduled it on April 1 so that if I answered a question wrong, I could simply say "April fools" and try again.
April 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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☄️JWST managed to image asteroid 2024 YR4 this month, and its infrared scopes got a really good estimate of its size.

Turns out it was 60m (+/-7)—sufficient to wreck a large city. Good thing it wasn’t heading to Earth after all…

iawn.net/obscamp/2024...
a view of the earth from space shows a volcano in the middle
ALT: a view of the earth from space shows a volcano in the middle
media.tenor.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Magneto: I can control all metals

astronomers: oh my god
March 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM