Stay updated with our latest research findings, announcements, and discoveries in stellar occultation studies.
This summer, members of the Occultation Group traveled to Colorado for the annual IOTA conference and an exciting occultation!
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In May, two Occultation Group members presented a poster at the Virginia Academy of Sciences (VAS), detailing a stellar occultation by (623) Chimaera.
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In March 2026, eight Occultation Group observers traveled to New South Wales, Australia, to hunt an occultation by a small moon of Jupiter.
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In January, the Occultation group traveled to the United Arab Emirates to occult (269) Justitia, a target of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA).
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In late September, the Occultation Group organized a campaign to characterize the shape of Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt target (623) Chimaera, including a eight telescope deployment by the group.
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In late September, members of the Occultation Group traveled to the island of Kauaʻi to observe an occultation by the dwarf planet Quaoar.
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Our team has completed our last campaign to gather data to profile this target of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, set to launch March 2028.
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At the end of May 2022, UVA students Liam Walters and Becky Williams flew from Charlottesville to Northern Australia to observe the dwarf planet Pluto.
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On March 27, 2022, three UVA teams traveled to North Carolina to observe asteroid (15904) Polymele.
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