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News

1.6.19 I have moved to the Physics Department at the United States Naval Academy. I will continue at UMD in an adjunct capacity. This page might or might not eventually migrate.

12.12.19 My work using Parker Solar Probe to study asteroid Phaethon ([1][2]) and TESS to study comet 46P/Wirtanen ([3][4]) has been in the news recently. I've also been interviewed about interstellar comet 2I/Borisov ([5][6]). Exciting times!

11.13.19 Three papers have been recently accepted for publication in AAS Journals:

• "New Insights into Interstellar Object 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) from SOHO/STEREO Nondetections" By Hui and Knight
• "First Results from TESS Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen" by Farnham, Kelley, Knight, and Feaga "First Results from TESS Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen".
• "Upper Limits for Emissions in the Coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Near Perihelion as Measured by Rosetta's Alice Far-Ultraviolet Spectrograph" by Keeney, Stern, Vervack, Knight, et al.

9.4.19 Our paper on the very peculiar comet C/2016 R2 Panstarrs is now out in AJ. Congratulations to Adam McKay for leading a huge effort to get such comprehensive data across multiple wavelengths.

7.1.19 Our ISSI team's paper "The Natural History of 'Oumuamua" is out in Nature Astronomy (subscription required). You can read it online for free here.

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