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Active Centaurs

undergraduate researcher in Planetary Astronomy Lab,

      MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

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Cambridge, MA
Flagstaff, AZ
June-August 2017
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In the summer after my freshman year, I analyzed data of centaurs—minor planets with asteroid and comet characteristics—to study the conditions under which centaurs become active and display comet-like comas.

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I created an analysis protocol and report generator in Mathematica

identifying possible centaur by noting it does not track with the stars 

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I traveled to Flagstaff, AZ to gain hands-on experience making astronomical observations

we observed asteroids with the Hall 42” telescope

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I gave high schoolers studying for the international astronomy olympiad hands-on practice

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I did outreach to educate the public about the 2017 total solar eclipse across the US

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