User:Nrco0e

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Welcome!

I am an aspiring solar system astronomer and planetary scientist, currently halfway through my undergraduate study of astrophysics in college. I mainly specialize in minor planets, comets and moons, but I sometimes dabble in exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and neutron stars too. Outside of Wikipedia, I do minor planet research and precovery/recovery work for the Minor Planet Center and Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. Since 2020, I've published over 70 MPECs, 10 CBETs, and discovered a few asteroids and binary trans-Neptunian objects. I've also named an asteroid after a YouTuber (10003 Caryhuang). Isn't that neat?

I joined Wikipedia in February 2019 and made my first edits to Hippocamp (moon), a Neptunian moon that just got named at the time. Now, my main activities on Wikipedia include expanding and completing articles up to Good Article (GA) status, keeping important lists (i.e. Moons of Jupiter) up to date, and creating new articles on new discoveries or other interesting astronomical objects. As of January 2023, I've written at least 15 articles that got promoted to GA status, albeit most of these were written before 2020, when I was less experienced. These old GAs are now fairly outdated and I don't have the motivation to rewrite these unfortunately. Beyond this, I occasionally make typo corrections and small updates to minor planet and comet articles on Wikipedia. When I get bored enough, I turn to creating userboxes and decorating my user page with them. My custom userboxes are listed at User:Nrco0e/Userboxes; feel free to use them for your own user page!



I'm only active here intermittently and I may take long breaks from Wikipedia if I get burnt out. Do not expect me to immediately respond to talk page interaction or article maintenance here. If there are urgent matters and concerns about my decisions, please do message me in my talk page or ping me elsewhere with the template {{ping|Nrco0e}}. I'm open to feedback about my actions, so please do let me know if I've made a mistake!

I adhere to the Wiki philosophy of being bold and ignoring the rules when necessary. If you're gonna add something within the lines of original research (not cruft hopefully), do still go for it—as long it clarifies the content more and you have the proper sources to support and justify it.[original research]