Seems reasonable. The exoplanet community have to figure out how discoveries are verified and cataloged. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) does that for Solar System objects. MPC has done something similar with the proliferation of tools and datasets docs.minorplanetcenter.net/mpc-ops-docs...

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Here’s my writeup of the possible new dwarf planets in the first haul of Rubin observatory TNO discoveries: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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I wish that there had been an opportunity for people to appreciate the Crowley socks I was wearing today. There wasn’t, so here’s a photo

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There is a Guy who is at every planetary science meeting I go to. He is older than me. He worked on the same planet I worked on. He went to the same undergrad college I did. He is a male chauvinist pig. He thinks we are buddies. He is wrong but he will never learn that he is wrong.

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They are about a lot on my estate especially on my evening dog walk, easy to run back and grab the IR camera when it’s at home for an outreach thingy. Not the best photo but the one I have to hand.

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