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Bojan Novakovic
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Planetary scientist at the University of Belgrade. Studying asteroids, comets, and TNOs. Passionate about planetary defense and protecting our planet from cosmic threats. Books and Nature lover.
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Hace hoy 8 años se liberaban los primeros datos de J-PLUS, el primer gran cartografiado del cielo desarrollado desde el #Observatorio #Astrofísico de #Javalambre

Entonces, 36 grados
Hoy, J-PLUS supera los 3.000 grados cuadrados observados 🌌

📊 Acceso abierto 👉 www.j-plus.es/datareleases...
October 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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An #asteroid passed just 300 km above Antarctica earlier today. It was not discovered until hours after close approach.
October 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Yesterday, newly-discovered #asteroid 2025 SU4 🦒passed closer than our geostationary satellites.
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Tomorrow, newly-discovered #asteroid 2025 RJ2 will miss the Moon by 13,000 km. Shortly before close approach, it will pass through the Moon's shadow.
September 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Kicking off the EPSC–DPS Meeting this morning at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki. Looking forward to a great week of planetary science! #EPSC2025 #Europlanet #Helsinki
September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🚀 En 2016...

📆 Un 5 de septiembre empezó la XIII reunión de J-PAS en #Teruel (70 asistentes)

🔭 Hoy son 250 científic@s de 18 países y el proyecto ofrece un mapa tridimensional con 450.000 galaxias observadas a través de 56 filtros 🌌 Son los primeros grados

archive.cefca.es/catalogues/j...

2016 ⬇️
September 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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weyWHAT

An unexpected occultation discovery of a potential 2nd moon or 3rd ring arc around dwarf planet Quaoar!

The new moon/ring is 30±2 km wide and seems to be 5757 km from Quaoar—suspiciously close to 7:2 orbital resonance with Quaoar's big moon Weywot!

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... ☄️
August 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Will hopefully be observing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the Gemini South telescope tomorrow night! Register to watch here: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.

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This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed
Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…
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August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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We already have a winner for scientific figure of the month!

Thanks to Rogerio Deienno for pointing out this paper.

Carrie Nugent et al., Placing the Near-Earth Object Impact Probability in Context

arxiv.org/abs/2508.02418
The chance of a > 140m NEO impacting Earth placed in context with the chance that other preventable events may happen to an individual. Individual event frequency and fatality chances are taken from peer reviewed studies on particular regions over specific time intervals; these are broad averages, individual risks vary widely. We expect most readers to be able to identify some events that are relevant to their lives, and some that are not. Readers interested in their own chances are encouraged to consider the events most relevant to their demographics, geographic region, and hobbies. ...This figure is intended to contextualize the > 140m NEO impact frequency with events people may be familiar with, such as flu sickness and lightning strikes. The x-axis is the chance of the rare event happening to the planet (NEO impact) or an individual (all other events) over an average human lifetime. The y-axis shows the chance of fatality to an individual if the event occurs. The chance of fatality from a > 140m impact is dependent on a large range of variables, such as impactor size (140 m to > 10 km) and impact location (populated city to middle of a large ocean). An impact could result in no fatalities (less likely) some fatalities (more likely) or mass extinction (very unlikely, but possible; this is represented by large error bars (blue).
August 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🔴 Want to work at the #Javalambre #Astrophysical #Observatory?

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July 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM