Join me for a Fireside Chat about ‘BepiColombo: Europe’s Journey to Mysterious Mercury’!
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📅 Wednesday 25 February 2026
⏰ 7.00-9.00PM GMT
📌 BIS HQ London and Online
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#MIXS #Mercury #SolarSystem #PlanetaryScience
@asrivkin.bsky.social hi Andy. Please add me to the bsky planetary scientists list :-)
Happy "Not Submitting an LPSC Abstract Today" to those who celebrate.
Congratulations Faith!
Glad the Apollo 13 movie is getting reruns lately.
This scene is even more moving today: right, Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell; left, cameo appearance by actual Jim Lovell (1928 Mar 25 - 2025 Aug 7).
RIP Jim Lovell, a man from a time when the USA did things we could all admire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A newly minted Open University PhD. Congratulations Dr Annie Lennox!
This is bog standard practice these days. You’d think that universities could trust that the full time employer for their proposed external examiner had already done a right to work check, and would at least trust other univs, but no - the numpties re-burden externals with this hassle every time.
Nice article featuring issues of diversity and inclusivity in planetary nomenclature by my student Annie Lennox. If folk don’t see their like represented, they are likely to feel excluded from the field. That’s unfair, but also we need all the talent we can get. geoscientist.online/sections/une...
Well said. Apart from the Orwellian rewriting of history, It’s a breach of trust to take down abstracts by non-US scientists who paid top dollar to attend and entrusted their abstracts to LPI.
Costas’s cool shades would not give much protection from a falling rock.
Indeed it is. Doesn’t VU Amsterdam have an obligation to “teach out” rather than cutting students adrift mid-degree?
Costas Xenophontas, a good friend of Ian’s, is in the 4th pic.
I was once in the Solar System Advisory Committee. We advised it, for the general wellbeing, to continue going round anticlockwise.
Good to meet you :-)
Sigh.
FFS Should make for an “interesting” NASA Town Hall briefing.
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
#PlanetParade had been overhyped, but here are Mars, Jupiter, Venus and last of all Mercury lurking at the lower edge of the band of grey cloud at tree top height. Video shot at 18:37 this evening.
#PlanetParade has been grossly overhyped by lazy journalists and colleagues keen to get on air. I caught sight of Mercury at 18:27 but Saturn was already too low. See pics. Venus is easy in the first 2, but you won’t spot Mercury except in the 3rd, magnified view. (Mars & Jupiter were lovely though)
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Welcome. This is a good place.
Has 1984 arrived, 41 years late?
Hi Paul. I’ve just seen this. Behind the scenes of a Bepi meeting (still in progress) I’ve been canvassing community support to run a moderated open mic session for speakers to present their MExAG talks. Same time and date, different platform. Am awaiting any objections from Carolyn and Steve.
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Authors, if you see this it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.
“Unless you are in the tropics (or witness a total solar eclipse) you will never see Mercury in a completely dark sky”
Planet Mercury: from Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World (Springer Praxis 2015)
Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book. “It would be meaningless to write about the discovery of our moon, the one that goes round the Earth - ‘the Moon’, as I shall call it from now on because that’s its name”
- Moons: A Very Short Introduction
Alan Sugar: "The biggest disaster in my lifetime was us leaving the European Union."
"If I was Prime Minister I'd be coming along on bended knee asking to be let back in."
Who else is wearing a #Churchill scarf today?
Can’t be that tough. I managed it. Eat your heart out, Prof Challis.
