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News

1.19.12 Yet more sungrazing comets in the news! I was interviewed about a new paper on C/2011 N3 (SOHO) for Scientific American.

1.13.12 More Lovejoy news here and in video form. Check me out at the 2:19 mark in the video!

12.21.11 In case you missed it, Lovejoy survived! I was interviewed for this Science@NASA article and wrote a blog post for Lowell. Stay tuned for more updates.

12.14.11 The most spectacular Kreutz comet of my lifetime was recently discovered (C/2011 W3 Lovejoy). I have been contributing some preliminary analysis to this excellent blog by Karl Battams (NRL).

10.4.11 Results from my EPSC-DPS talk on Hartley 2 were mentioned in a press release from the meeting (complete with figure).

9.29.11 I helped obtain some calibration data for Henry Hsieh's paper "Observational and Dynamical Characterization of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)" which now has been posted to astro-ph.

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