Dr. Adeene Denton

@spacewhalerider.com

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Planetary scientist, earth + space science historian, dancer/choreographer, part-time community radio DJ. (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈 adeenedenton.com

Charlie from Always Sunny is standing in front of the other 4 members with a TV. He has been edited to show them a picture of Pluto. The other four Always Sunny people are looking at him and the picture in various stages of confusion and bafflement. They are labeled "hiring committee member"
Brian David Gilbert saying "I am not interested, get that shit outta here." He has been edited to be talking about a picture of Mars.
The post author holding an impact melt rock from the Araguainha impact structure in Brazil
A version of the doubled-triangle plot diagram called a QAPF diagram that shows the different types of igneous rocks. It definitely does not clarify things (for the uninitiated).
A fridge. The post author has been waiting a month for this day.
A graph that has the plot of the orbit of the hypothesized Planet Nine in orange across the from the orbits of a few other Kuiper belt objects, including Sedna. Text reads: The Search for Planet 9, KVCU 1190 AM, 1190.com. These are the two ways you can listen to the show: first if you're located inside/around Boulder and online if you're not.
Red Mountain, a volcanic cinder cone north of Flagstaff that has eroded into a large natural amphitheater.
Selfie of the post author in front of the Lowell observatory entrance. The column has all of the planetary symbols on it
A location marker that reads: Stab Mountain
Lucy-themed socks, with the Lucy spacecraft navigating through a field of asteroids on a navy blue and black background
Knee-high planet-theme compression socks, worn with old hiking boots. Comets, planets, and more are visible against a black background.
A giant chunk of obsidian from Big Glass mountain in Northern California. Flow is visible within it. Field notebook included for scale. The field notebook is tiny in comparison to the size of the obsidian
Meme of a dog getting blown by the wind, that has been edited to read: That telescope wasn't lying. That rock can squiggle.
A text saying: My team tried to install it, unfortunately the new refrigerator is tall than it should be, about two inches.
A graph that has the plot of the orbit of the hypothesized Planet Nine in orange across the from the orbits of a few other Kuiper belt objects, including Sedna. Text reads: The Search for Planet 9, KVCU 1190 AM, 1190.com. These are the two ways you can listen to the show: first if you're located inside/around Boulder and online if you're not.
A slightly smoky sunrise from the trails south of Boulder. The smoke has turned the sun a deep orange.
A box of ripe peaches that are partially-damaged and thus look a little beat up but are extremely ripe and tasty
A picture the reads: July better feel like this, with a bunch of technicolor dolphins, hearts, and rainbows. It's Lisa Frank-adjacent in terms of design and color.
A graph that has the plot of the orbit of the hypothesized Planet Nine in orange across the from the orbits of a few other Kuiper belt objects, including Sedna. Text reads: The Search for Planet 9, KVCU 1190 AM, 1190.com. These are the two ways you can listen to the show: first if you're located inside/around Boulder and online if you're not.
Screenshot of part of an email, which reads: Hello, the fridge didn't fit.
Taken from a run up to the Mount Wilson observatory in the San Gabriel mountains north of Pasadena.
Post author's valiant attempt at taking a picture of Manaslu, the 8th-tallest mountain in the world, at sunrise. It is a snow-covered peak rising high above a sea of smaller peaks, surrounded by fog.
Classic Catalina sunrise with the valley in shadow.
Mountains in Romsdal area, Norway. Partly snow-covered.
Post author took this picture of the Dolomites in 2016 and liked it so much that it is STILL their laptop background to this day. Huge limestone cliffs stretch into the distance.
Post author in front of Mount Shasta, one of the biggest volcanoes in the Cascades. Their arms are outstreched to convey the level of stoke.
San Juan mountains outside of Lake City, CO. Full of deep red colors from oxidizing, slopes covered in gorgeous pine trees and aspens.
Screenshot of a wikipedia page that reads: World Refrigeration Day is an international day established by the World Refrigeration Day Secretariat in Derbyshire, England. Held annually on 26 June, it was created to raise awareness about the importance of refrigeration technologies in everyday life and to raise the profile of the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat-pump sector.The day was chosen to celebrate the birth date of Lord Kelvin on 26 June 1824.
My result, which is 86% Woke, 14% Chud; 30% Techbro, 70% Neo-Luddite; 41% Hopepilled, 59% Doomer; 80% Davos, 20% Dubai. My closest match is Ed Zitron
A very red-looking mountain. Its name is, you guessed it, Red Mountain
The poster standing at the finish line of the San Juan Solstice 50K, flanked by two runners in running gear, who were their crew.
Selfie of the author running along the top of a ridge on the continental divide
A cybertruck with a weird black, grey, and white polygonal wrap. I don’t know. I hated it
The Flag of Zheleznogorsk, Russia. A yellow bear is splitting a white atom with its claws in the center of the flag. The background of the flag is red.
A graphic cartoon shows two orbs representing Neptune (left, pale blue-ish turquoise) and Uranus (right, very light grey blue). A cutaway in each orb shows one theoretical model of interior structure: mostly orange representing a hydrogen-rich "supercritical magma ocean" enclosed in various transition layers with a rainbow color gradient representing density.
Ben Affleck with his eyes downcast, looking vaguely dead inside.
Marina from Marina and the Diamonds in two images. In the first she looks surprised or taken aback. In the second, she is starting to smile as she raises the microphone to her mouth.
Aggressively ugly flag of San Antonio that is derived from the Texas flag. The left half is blue, the right half is red, the center is one massive white star whose upper and lower points touch the flag edges. At the center of the white star is a simple line drawing of the Alamo. Gotta remember it.
A medium article called "Something is Moving on Mars" by the author Mars is Haunted
A now-deleted graphic from NASA that was designed to be a computer background. The text from the site read that the woman has "features… abstract enough that any woman can see themselves in her.” It is a generic woman superimposed onto a picture of the Moon with a black background.
A beautiful loaf of pumpkin bread made by the poster
A screenshot from the game maptap.gg for today (June 7, 2026) that asks the player to tap as close as they can to Pasadena, California
A view downvalley on the Herman Gulch trail on a sunny day. The stream valley is bounded by trees on either side. Above treeline, patches of snow abound on the surrounding mountain slopes. I think the mountain in the back is Mount Sniktau but I'm not sure
A can of Godzilla Energy. The word Godzilla is in cool green monster font. The can has a picture of Godzilla where he looks to be squaring up again a monster that is a gigantic rose with teeth
Post author presenting a slide which reads: Theia, assumed to be comparable to Mars in mass, is near the transition size where strength could alter impact outcomes. Does strength matter for Moon formation? At the bottom of the slide, in giant shiny font, in all caps, is the answer to this question: Yes
title slide for the post author's upcoming talk. Title is: Does material strength alter the fate of Theia in the Moon-forming impact? The background picture of the slide is the new Earthrise photo from Artemis II.
A graph that has the plot of the orbit of the hypothesized Planet Nine in orange across the from the orbits of a few other Kuiper belt objects, including Sedna. Text reads: The Search for Planet 9, KVCU 1190 AM, 1190.com. These are the two ways you can listen to the show: first if you're located inside/around Boulder and online if you're not.
Mac from Always Sunny in Philadelphia stands in front of a poster he is presenting titled: Science is a LIAR sometimes. Underneath that title are Mercury, Mars, and the Moon. Each is labeled bitch.
gif of the Soviet Mars rover, PrOP-M, which weighed a little less than 10 pounds (4.5 kg), and moved on little skis that inched it along. It was adorable and it perished on Mars.
Stanley Tucci as evil geophysicist Dr. Conrad Zimsky. He has coiffed salt-and-pepper hair and is dressed in all black, with a black jacket and black knitted scarf. In case you can't tell he's evil, he is also smoking.
Post author wearing a button-down shirt that is space-themed, with pink and blue/purple accents. The post author's hair is half-up half-down, showing highlights that are pink, purple, and blue. Their earrings are also dancing skeletons. That's not really relevant but the reader should know about it nonethless.
A rainbow 3D-printed shape model of Mimas on a desk
A partly cloudy day with a view of the London Eye and parliament
Lyrics from getting into knives by the mountain goats in the Burger King font. Between the buns reads: getting into knives. The tagline is: I’m sharpening my focus
Movie of a series of moon-forming collision simulations set to I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance
Arcs in the Adams ring, as seen in this low-exposure Voyager 2 image
Headline that reads: 12 million images later, Mars starts to make sense
Picture of a female takahē. Looks very round. Lovely large red beak. Body is a deep navy blue and greenish-blue.
Geologic cross-section of the crater under Chesapeake Bay, with the locations of multiple well sites that drilled into different parts of the crater.
Satellite image of Popigai in northern Siberia, Russia. It is a heavily eroded impact structure approximately 100 km across (62 mi).