Cody Schultz

Screenshot of the president's budget showing that the Exoplanet Exploration budget would reduce from $54.4M to $3.3M.

*speechless horror*

(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath

Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…

Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.

If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

The curious case of the missing mantle: How carbonaceous chondrites may confound the spectral identification of partially differentiated asteroids The scarcity of olivine-rich mantle material in meteorite collections and asteroid spectra, known as the “Missing Mantle Conundrum,” challenges our un…

Accepted without revision 😁 Beautiful words to hear to help wrap up 2024 and kick off 2025!

Excited to share this recent paper where I tell the story of how asteroids can easily be disguised, belying their true nature, due to the natural collisional evolution of the solar system. Check it out here:

Book cover of the book COMETS III. A view of comet 67P can be seen filling almost the entire cover. A dust jet is escaping between the large and small lobe from the neck are of the comet. Big capital letter across the top say COMETS III. The editors are listed below the title in smaller font: Karen J. Meech, Michael R. Combi, Dominique Bocklee-Morvan, Sean N. Raymond, and Michael E. Zolensky.

To everyone interested in #comets: The latest review book, COMETS III, is finally coming out.

You can order it here: https://buff.ly/3CTtMCV
Most chapters (incl. mine) are also on arXiv: https://buff.ly/3Zjc1o0

As one of the authors, I have some discount codes. More about that below.

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Whats it like being a freelance science journalist? How does the job “work” so to speak?

These look amazing!!!

🫨 that’s awesome! What was your path to getting there?

And now...the important question...does anyone have any leads on getting STL files for different mineral structures? (Obviously I'd mostly like pyroxenes of any delicious composition)

Now do one for planetary! 😀

I totally agree! I haven’t updated the app since that happened so it still appears as Twitter on my phone 🙈

Congratulations!! Sounds like a really great read!

Looove this

Just submitted my second postdoctoral fellowship application 🥳 what an exciting time to think about doing new projects with wonderful new people! If you or anyone you know is looking for a postdoc in earth and planetary sciences please let me know 🙂 #GeoSky #EarthSky #PlanetarySky

Thank you Justin! Fingers crossed! 😁

Submitted my first postdoctoral fellowships proposal today! 🥳 the first one is always the hardest, right? Right?!?

So exciting :D but I also don’t envy the folks who have to collect all of those exterior dust samples 😅

New academic achievement unlocked!

Simultaneously tuned in to both a Zoom and Teams meeting ✅

Exciting opportunities!!

I’m short, knowing these bodies better helps us understand not only our origins but the fundamental processes that shaped the evolution of our solar system!

Image credits in order of appearance: C.D. Schultz; WikiCommons; University of Arizona/NASA; NASA/JPL-Caltech.

And by better understanding the spectral properties of these asteroids, we’ll have a much better idea of what they’re made of!This is important because asteroids like these may have delivered much of Earth’s water and the organic molecules necessary for life!

We study the spectral properties of meteorites like this in the lab so that we can make better interpretations of the spectral properties of asteroids, like asteroid 101955 Bennu!

I will be studying this stone using a technique called reflectance spectroscopy! It’s a powerful method used for studying the composition of different objects. This technique is particular powerful because we can use it in the lab but also remotely to study the composition of things like asteroids!

At approximately 4.568 billion years old, these minerals are actually used as the standard reference for the age of our solar system! See one in the photo below (the big irregularly shaped blob)!

Allende is perhaps one of the most famous and well-studied meteorites. But inside this stone are minerals, referred to as Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions, that are considered to be the very first minerals to have formed in our solar system.

Extremely excited to have received this in the mail today!

This is the Allende meteorite, which fell and was recovered in Mexico in 1969. It belongs to a class of meteorites that are among the most primitive rocks in our solar system.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing that!

Did they ever sort out the latch issue with the solar panel?