User:Nrco0e

  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 research and precovery/recovery work on minor planets and comets for the Minor Planet Center and Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. I've also named a few asteroids, like 10003 Caryhuang.

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. , 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 These old GAs are now fairly outdated and I don't have the motivation to rewrite these unfortunately.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. 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.

What does my username mean?
It means nothing. It's just a random keysmash of letters that I came up with on the spot when I was creating my Wikipedia account back in 2019. (so ingenious am I right?)

Wiki writing tips

 * Write for the sake of explaining a genuinely interesting topic, not for a lengthy "good" article.
 * Focus on clarity and conciseness, not length. What I did to  is the epitome of how to not write a good Wikipedia article—it's too inflated with trivial and wordy details. (Maybe I should WP:BLOWITUP...)
 * If you get stuck thinking about how to word a specific sentence, replace it with simple terms as a temporary placeholder, and then continue on with the rest of the paragraph. You can revisit that sentence later.
 * Avoid unnecessary trivial details (i.e. listing out an asteroid's location, constellation, brightness, and speed at the time of discovery. Nobody needs to know that, nor would they care about it.)
 * Organize your code and wikimarkup formatting consistently. I highly recommend using spaces to separate parameters for templates and tables, especially if they're large.
 * Please please please put all your references in the  under the References section and define each reference with a refname. I seriously can't stand editing when there's a huge mess of citation and ref templates in the way like this:
 * Copy and save your wiki draft to a .txt file. I cannot emphasize this enough—please save your work as you can easily lose progress in the website editor because of a dead battery, power outage, or accidentally closing the tab.
 * Most importantly, just have fun and take breaks when you need to! If you're feeling stressed or feel like you have a nagging obligation to do things on Wikipedia (i.e. monitoring pages for vandalism, getting involved in debates and discussions, etc.), then it's best that you take a break, cool off, and touch some grass.

Other Wiki notes

 * If you're going to add artist's impressions of astronomical objects and phenomena, make sure it is scientifically accurate, comes from a reliable source, and follows guidelines on WP:ASTROART!
 * NO AI UPSCALING ALLOWED!!! That simply takes away the real data and authenticity of the original image!

Pages created
Pages are listed with their original names upon creation


 * 1)   (Jan 2020)
 * 2)   (Feb 2020)
 * 3)   (Feb 2020)
 * 4)   (ATLAS) (May 2020)
 * 5)  2MASS J10475385+2124234 (May 2020)
 * 6)  2020 SO (Sep 2020)
 * 7)  WD 1856+534 (Sep 2020)
 * 8)   (Sep 2020)
 * 9)   (Nov 2020)
 * 10)  List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2021 (Jan 2021)
 * 11)   (Jan 2021)
 * 12)   (Jan 2021)
 * 13)  2020 SW (Jan 2021)
 * 14)   (Feb 2021)
 * 15)  2MASS J04070752+1546457 (March 2021)
 * 16)  2MASS J12195156+3128497 (March 2021)
 * 17)  2MASS J03480772−6022270 (March 2021)
 * 18)   (Aug 2021)
 * 19)   (Aug 2021)
 * 20)   (Aug 2021)
 * 21)   (Aug 2021)
 * 22)   (Aug 2021)
 * 23)   (Aug 2021)
 * 24)  (155140) 2005 UD (Sep 2021)
 * 25)   (Oct 2021)
 * 26)  2019 XS (Oct 2021)
 * 27)   (Nov 2021)
 * 28)  (35107) 1991 VH (Nov 2021)
 * 29)   (Dec 2021)
 * 30)   (Dec 2021)
 * 31)  Kepler-1708b (Jan 2022)
 * 32)  Proxima Centauri d (Feb 2022)
 * 33)   (Mar 2022)
 * 34)  P/2011 P1 (McNaught) (Mar 2022)
 * 35)   (Mar 2022)
 * 36)   (May 2022)
 * 37)   (May 2022)
 * 38)  4337 Arecibo (Jun 2022)
 * 39)  PSR J0952–0607 (Jul 2022)
 * 40)   (Sep 2022)
 * 41)   (Nov 2022)
 * 42)  P/2013 R3 (Catalina–PanSTARRS) (Dec 2022)
 * 43)  JADES-GS-z13-0 (Dec 2022)
 * 44)   (Dec 2022)
 * 45)  P/2016 J1 (PanSTARRS) (Dec 2022)
 * 46)  S/2018 J 2 (Dec 2022)
 * 47)  S/2011 J 3 (Dec 2022)
 * 48)  S/2016 J 3 (Jan 2023)
 * 49)  S/2018 J 4 (Jan 2023)
 * 50)  S/2016 J 4 (Jan 2023)
 * 51)   (Jan 2023)
 * 52)   (Feb 2023)
 * 53)  S/2022 J 1 (Feb 2023)
 * 54)  S/2022 J 2 (Feb 2023)
 * 55)  S/2022 J 3 (Feb 2023)
 * 56)  PSR J1930–1852 (Mar 2023)
 * 57)  PSR J1946+2052 (Mar 2023)
 * 58)  Swift J1818.0–1607 (Mar 2023)
 * 59)  WISE J0336−0143 (Mar 2023)
 * 60)   (Apr 2023)
 * 61)  17365 Thymbraeus (Nov 2023)
 * 62)   and  (Nov 2023)
 * 63)   (Jan 2024)
 * 64)  S/2021 N 1 (Feb 2024)
 * 65)  S/2002 N 5 (Feb 2024)
 * 66)  S/2023 U 1 (Feb 2024)
 * 67)  2024 MK (TBD)
 * 68)  2018 EB (TBD)
 * 69)   (TBD)
 * 70)  PSR J0030+0451 (TBD)

Article updates feed

 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Astronomy articles by quality log
 * Category:Minor planet object articles (unnumbered)
 * Category:Minor planet object articles (numbered)
 * Category:Cometary object articles
 * Category:Solar System
 * Category:Irregular satellites
 * Category:Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope
 * Category:Exoplanets detected by radial velocity

Wiki resources

 * Template:Icon
 * WikiProject Solar System/Assessment
 * WikiProject Astronomy/Importance ratings
 * Template:Infobox planet
 * Template:Infobox comet
 * Template:Starbox begin
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Archive 34

External resources

 * Basics of technical writing for astronomy graduate students
 * Names of telescopes – Space-based telescopes are in italics (e.g. HST, Planck, Herschel), whereas ground-based telescopes are not (e.g. Keck, Gemini, VLA)