#Sungrazer Project

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If the conditions are right, comets can leave debris trails that cause meteor showers if Earth’s orbit encounters their path, such as the October Orionids, which are particles from the famous Halley’s comet.

The next meteor shower, the Southern Taurids, is expected to peak on the night of November 4 into the early morning of November 5 and also has a comet for a parent body called Comet Encke.

"However, any debris from C/2023 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS or C/2024 S1 will not pass near enough to Earth to produce a meteor shower," Cooke said.

"How often comets are visible in our skies is variable, with some years offering up a handful of the icy bodies that sky-gazers can spot and others not so fruitful," Battams said.

“Historically, comets have always been a source of fascination to people, in part due to the fact that they are such infrequent occurrences,” he added.

“I’m sure back in pre-industrial times when light pollution was no concern, some of the comets that people saw must have been equally awe-inspiring and terrifying!”

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Join the next Do NASA Science LIVE event as we explore ways to participate in NASA’s winter-themed volunteer research projects. Register here for this event on February 21st at 7pm ET. Credit: SciStarter Snow and ice are everywhere this time of year—mountain tops, Alaska, and even outer space. Grab a cup of hot cocoa and join us for the next Do NASA Science LIVE event as we explore ways to participate in NASA’s winter-themed volunteer research projects. On this interactive Zoom call, you’ll chat with five scientists who will describe how you can participate in their NASA research. No previous experience is required—just access to a computer or smartphone. Registration is free, required, and now open. Discover how to fill important data gaps in understanding what “cold” means on Earth AND in space. Sometimes cold is relative and the coldest objects in space—still warmer than Jupiter– are vital for teaching us about how stars and planets form. Help us understand and protect our own planet too! We will hear from the researchers behind: Mountain Rain or Snow, Fresh Eyes on Ice, Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors, GLOBE Observer Land Cover, and the Sungrazer Project. Register here to join in the conversation, connect with scientists, and contribute to real science: February 21st at 7pm ET for “What’s it mean to be cool?”. Bring the whole family! Everyone is welcome. Share Details Last Updated Feb 12, 2024 Related Terms Astrophysics Biological & Physical Sciences Citizen Science Earth Science Heliophysics Planetary Science Explore More 4 min read Sense the Solar Eclipse with NASA’s Eclipse Soundscapes Project Article 22 mins ago 2 min read Hubble Spots a Galaxy Shrouded by Stars Article 3 days ago 3 min read NASA’s Hubble Traces ‘String of Pearls’ Star Clusters in Galaxy Collisions Article 4 days ago

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Sungrazer is a new video work (and walk) through the collective memory project that is Wikipedia. It is about the rounding and shearing of history through recollection. The path in the walk is formed via the links present on each page, concept drifting from topic to topic. Putting this path together was a wild experience- like excavating a linear thesis, fully formed, from the soil.

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25 Years in Space for ESA & NASA’s Sun-Watching SOHO

A quarter-century ago, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) launched to space. Its 25 years of data have changed the way we think about the Sun — illuminating everything from the Sun’s inner workings to the constant changes in its outermost atmosphere.

SOHO — a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA — carries 12 instruments to study different aspects of the Sun. One of the gamechangers was SOHO’s coronagraph, a type of instrument that uses a solid disk to block out the bright face of the Sun and reveal the relatively faint outer atmosphere, the corona. With SOHO’s coronagraph, scientists could image giant eruptions of solar material and magnetic fields, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. SOHO’s images revealed shape and structure of CMEs in breathtaking detail.

These solar storms can impact robotic spacecraft in their path, or — when intense and aimed at Earth — threaten astronauts on spacewalks and even disrupt power grids on the ground. SOHO is particularly useful in viewing Earth-bound storms, called halo CMEs — so called because when a CME barrels toward us on Earth, it appears circular, surrounding the Sun, much like watching a balloon inflate by looking down on it.

Before SOHO, the scientific community debated whether or not it was even possible to witness a CME coming straight toward us. Today, SOHO images are the backbone of space weather prediction models, regularly used in forecasting the impacts of space weather events traveling toward Earth.

Beyond the day-to-day monitoring of space weather, SOHO has been able to provide insight about our dynamic Sun on longer timescales as well. With 25 years under its belt, SOHO has observed a full magnetic cycle — when the Sun’s magnetic poles switch places and then flip back again, a process that takes about 22 years in total. This trove of data has led to revolutions in solar science: from revelations about the behavior of the solar core to new insight into space weather events that explode from the Sun and travel throughout the solar system.

Data from SOHO, sonified by the Stanford Experimental Physics Lab, captures the Sun’s natural vibrations and provides scientists with a concrete representation of its dynamic movements.

The legacy of SOHO’s instruments — such as the extreme ultraviolet imager, the first of its kind to fly in orbit — also paved the way for the next generation of NASA solar satellites, like the Solar Dynamics Observatory and STEREO. Even with these newer instruments now in orbit, SOHO’s data remains an invaluable part of solar science, producing nearly 200 scientific papers every year.

Relatively early in its mission, SOHO had a brush with catastrophe. During a routine calibration procedure in June 1998, the operations team lost contact with the spacecraft. With the help of a radio telescope in Arecibo, the team eventually located SOHO and brought it back online by November of that year. But luck only held out so long: Complications from the near loss emerged just weeks later, when all three gyroscopes — which help the spacecraft point in the right direction — failed. The spacecraft was no longer stabilized. Undaunted, the team’s software engineers developed a new program that would stabilize the spacecraft without the gyroscopes. SOHO resumed normal operations in February 1999, becoming the first spacecraft of its kind to function without gyroscopes.

SOHO’s coronagraph have also helped the Sun-studying mission become the greatest comet finder of all time. The mission’s data has revealed more than 4,000 comets to date, many of which were found by citizen scientists. SOHO’s online data during the early days of the mission made it possible for anyone to carefully scrutinize a image and potentially spot a comet heading toward the Sun. Amateur astronomers from across the globe joined the hunt and began sending their findings to the SOHO team. To ease the burden on their inboxes, the team created the SOHO Sungrazer Project, where citizen scientists could share their findings.

Keep up with the latest SOHO findings at nasa.gov/soho, and follow along with @NASASun on Twitter and facebook.com/NASASunScience.

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A Complete Guide – IndianSky

A Complete Guide – IndianSky

In previous article I have given the overview of Sungrazer’s Project. Here I will go through steps involving fetching and processing raw files and as well as discovering and reporting a potential comet. An Overview of Sungrazer Project by Dr. Karl Battams Sungrazer Project: How to discover a Comet? As mentioned in the above articleContinue reading The post A Complete Guide – IndianSky appeared…

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A Complete Guide – IndianSky

A Complete Guide – IndianSky

In previous article I have given the overview of Sungrazer’s Project. Here I will go through steps involving fetching and processing raw files and as well as discovering and reporting a potential comet. An Overview of Sungrazer Project by Dr. Karl Battams Sungrazer Project: How to discover a Comet? As mentioned in the above articleContinue reading The post A Complete Guide – IndianSky appeared…

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Atomic Mold Speaks... And The Universe Listens

~By Mari Knox~

At the New Year dawned, Doomed & Stoned gave you another listen into the always fascinating rumblings of the Italian heavy underground, debuting a new music video by Italian psychedelics ATOMIC MOLD. Their new album, 'Hybrid Slow Flood' (2018), as it just so happens, was just released today via Electric Valley Records. It's time, readers, to enter Atomic Mold's trippy world of sight, sound, and substance, with our embedded scene reporter, Mari Knox. Check it out... (Billy)

HYBRID SLOW FLOOD by ATOMIC MOLD

Let's start with the classic introduction. Who are Atomic Mold and what is your origin story?

Atomic Mold is: Fila Marco on drums, Marotta Davide on guitars, and Bonizzato Antonio on bass and vocals. The project started at the end of 2013, after the stoner band in which Marco and I played split up. After two months of testing drums and bass together, we had already written the pieces that would later make up our first album, issued in January of 2014. Massella Luca joined us and, in October 2014, we recorded the first self-titled LP.

In March 2015, we recorded a 12" split LP shared with German band Mount Hush for the Electric Valley Records label. That same month, Luca left the band and we played live in the bass and drums version for a whole year all around Italy. Exactly one year later, in March of 2016, Luca re-joined the band and live shows, which have often been abroad, giving us great satisfaction. During the long absences of Luca, Marco and I wrote the tracks that make up Hybrid Slow Flood. In January, we started recording that same album and Luca decided to leave the band permanently. Immediately after that, Davide Marotta came forward, a guitar player with whom there was a very good feeling, since that first jam in June 2016 and we went back to the studio to finish the recordings.

Each of you has his own interesting musical background. Toni and Marco played with the hardcore punk band Reset Clan and Davide had his own stoner rock project, Holy Fuzz. Tell us about your personal influences and how these affect the Atomic Mold sound.

Marco: My influences come certainly from black metal, death metal, and drindcore -- genres that I've always listened to, probably the reason for the energetic feel with which I beat the skins!

Toni: Marco and I have been playing together since 2005 in various projects and genres, very different from each other -- from stoner to hardcore punk. Musically, we have grown a lot together. "Yellow Crocodile" definitely makes us feel that we have hardcore influences. Every now and then in the rehearsal room, the vein gets closed -- we go totally ham -- and the bpm start to get crazy!

Davide: My musical influences are tied to the blues from the very beginning. For me, it has always been key to my way of conceiving and playing music. Throughout the years, I have developed an affinity for particular sounds like Hawkwind, Can, Jimi Hendrix, and so on. Growing up, I have undertaken darker and heavier sounds, first of all Black Sabbath, then Electric Wizard, Conan, and so on. I always try to capture details that are always distinct and different to add and blend into the composition and my way of playing, influenced by all the genres that distinguish my musical background.

'Hybrid Slow Flood' marks your musical return to the scene after two years. We can feel a little twist about your sound now -- it's tougher and strongly lysergic. What do you think has changed in your music and what kind of expectations do you have about the new record?

Marco: In the periods of time in which we played as a power duo, just drums and bass, we have experimented a lot with our sounds and I think that even if they were difficult times they helped us to grow. With the arrival of David, we have made our sound more complete and consistent.

Let's talk about the topics of the disc: from the title to the four tracks which comprise it, tell us how 'Hybrid Slow Flood' was born and what meaning we can find here.

Toni: "Hybrid Slow Flood" represents the slow, yet constant load of traumas, painful experiences, and disappointments with which we fill our minds in everyday life. The topics of the lyrics inside the record (what little words there are) revolve around hallucinations and travels within one's self, journeys that often border on the absurd and touch extremely conflicting emotions. We composed the tracks of Hybrid Slow Flood in two times: during the first long absence of Luca and then during his leaves of absence once he was back in the band -- for all of us that was a difficult period to deal with and I think that this has forged the sound and lyrics of the tracks.

Since your previous release (the Mount Hush/Atomic Mold split) until today, you've always worked with the Sardinian label Electric Valley Records. Surely we can say you have a lovely relationship with them, right? How was this collaboration born?

Toni: Yes, with Electric Valley Records, we have a very good relationship. They contacted us during the release of our first album and we started working immediately after for the realization of the split with a good harmony. In October 2016, with the tour in Sardinia together with Fatso Jetson, we met Marco Nieddu who is a great man and really puts his heart in what he does. For this reason, we naturally decided to issue Hybrid Slow Flood on Electric Valley Records, as well.

Regarding the artwork, you've relied on the work of the artist Errecì, who is the same guy behind the cover of the previous release. I'm really curious to know what the 'Hybrid Slow Flood' artwork means, with all of its cosmic and mysterious vibes?

Toni: Well, we found ourselves really happy with the work he did for the split and we like very much the work that he often publishes on social media, so we decided to rely on him. We sent him some lyrics that I wrote, that will end up in the next effort we are working, to use as a track. They are about a person in contact with Mother Earth -- something increasingly rare for us human beings -- and the energy that it releases.

In my opinion, one of your strongest musical characteristics is truthfulness, authenticity. Let me clarify: listening to you both live and on record, I always get the feeling of attending a jam session. I’d like to know how you organize your musical compositions and arrangements and how it takes place during your days in the rehearsal room.

Marco: We spend a lot of time improvising in the rehearsal room, trying to create real sound-images. For example, the track "Wood Line" was first born from a jam and, often when we are on stage, we get carried away and we dilate it a lot while performing.

I know you really love playing live. Besides Italy, you have played several times in Germany, where I've heard the crowds are very enthusiastic. Can you confirm this? Where did you like to play more? Have you got some funny anecdotes to tell us about your live experiences?

Toni: We can confirm that abroad the public is very warm and, even though in Italy there are some wonderful situations, every time we have been abroad, there people are around the stage from the beginning of your set and when you finish your thing they still want more, again and again, and this happens with all the bands in the lineup. People go to concerts to have some real fun.

Davide: The last time we were in Rosenheim, we were going to sleep at the home of a guy who had offered to host us, supposedly. After the evening, we were all pretty high and when we loaded the van we started looking for this guy so we could sleep for the night. No one could be found for an hour and, in the end, we found him completely drunk, crashing on the backstage sofa without the slightest bit of strength to bring us home or tell us where his home was. At that point, we went to sleep in the van to minus-five degrees weather and it was snowing all around us! That was a crazy night for one of us -- you have to guess which one -- that in his drunk and ice-cold dream-sleep started barking!

What are you doing lately? Are you writing new tracks or did you prefer to focus on promoting and touring for the new record?

Davide: In addition to the promotion of Hybrid Slow Flood, we are arranging some brand new pieces, this time composed, worked through, and created in a three-member lineup. These we will soon record for the next project of Atomic Mold.

Let me ask you one last question: If you could bring back a past legend or choose a modern band, whoever you particularly like, which one would you take on stage with you?

A band that we would like to resurrect and be able to see on the beaches of Sardinia with us is Sungrazer!

Thank you, on behalf of Doomed & Stoned, for your time and for spending a few minutes with our readers.

Thank you so much, Mari, and thanks very much also to Doomed & Stoned for their support.

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Saturday 26th December 2020

Boxing Day

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A ‘Bank Holiday’ in the UK or what the rest of the world calls a ‘public’ holiday.

The name comes from a time when the rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, and the day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters. The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families

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Under normal PP (pre-pandemic) life we’d have family with us today again and be hosting the traditional, dare I even say it ‘Legendary’ Boxing Day Buffet. It’s a sad fact that now me and Papa Crow are the family elders and so we like our annual rituals. I think the girls do too, well certainly Ms NW tE does and the Retro Boxing Day Buffet really stakes its place. Not simply the standard annual Buffet of our childhood, but jazzed up for this Millennium. No soggy vol-au-vents with cold, tinned creamy chicken here thank you very much. One year we went off piste with a British favourite and it was a Curry Buffet - that went down very well indeed. Not happening this year for obvious reasons, so instead I’m recording the most beautiful flowers that came in time for Christmas from Ms NW tE. The delivery came around 7pm-ish and the knock at the door literally shook the house - the courier must have been keen to make himself heard above the carols that we had belting out. The sweet thought actually made me cry and even brought a mistiness to Crow’s eyes too. I arranged them in my late Granny’s vase, which is just a perfect match in size and colours.

Ms NW tE you really must stop making me crumble!

Flowers moved to the kitchen for better lighting. Photo shifted off centre so the Hare and the Cow got in the act

Right. Gathering self together because that won’t do at all. How about this? Nothing for you on the TV? bored? Try This Quiz

For full disclosure I came out as a Blackbird and confusingly, Crow is a Wood Pigeon. Coo, who kneeew.

Beautiful female Blackbird - photo credit to the August monthly mail out from Feathers Wild Bird Care, Salehurst

Wood Pigeon after emptying the bird bath on Wednesday in our own garden

I thought I’d share Crow’s favourite decoration. I remember buying it in Peter Jones, Sloane Square - how posh! It was many, many moons ago: expensive at the time but it’ll never wear out or get shabby and we both love it. I usually know which box it’s hidden away in as it’s always the heaviest.

We particularly how it takes on the hues and reflections of its background. I think if Father Christmas ever got his hands on it, it’d be a Dancer or Prancer. What do you reckon?

I hadn’t realised how many of our decorations are nature themed.

In outside news from the natural world

If you were disappointed in our night sky viewing this week. Here’s some news.

A newly discovered comet was spotted flying 2.7 million miles from the sun during last week's solar eclipse before disintegrating into dust particles from the intense radiation.

The comet was part of the Kreutz Sungrazer family, which originated from a large parent comet that broke into smaller fragments thousands of years ago.

The comet was discovered by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project.

* and yes, I have searched his name and he is real

This organization is a citizen science project that invites anyone to search for and discover new comets in images from the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

When the comet was first discovered, Boonplod anticipated it would streak across the sky during the solar eclipse and that it would appear as a small speck in photos – and he was right.

On December 14, the comet was a tiny bright dot in images of the solar eclipse.

Experts say it was traveling roughly 450,000 miles per hour and measured around 50 feet in diameter.

However, the comet disintegrated to dust particles due to intense solar radiation, a few hours before reaching its closest point to the Sun. Still at least he got a record of it.

NOTES FROM THE KITCHEN:

I haven’t tried it myself and we didn’t have turkey here but I guess This leftovers Recipe is adaptable for whatever you might have.

Wherever you are, I hope you’ve been good this year and he came and brought you something nice.

Christmas Decoration from the Standen Courtyard Christmas Tree

A jolly Snowman. I love his Carrot nose and ‘coal’ mouth. No snow here for Christmas but there have been reports from ‘Oop North’ (and in Eastern parts too)

Christmas Carol of Choice Today From Ars Nova, Copenhagen

‘Ding Dong Merrily on High’

I think this is the most beautiful arrangement I’ve heard of this carol.

From our house to yours at Christmas a roaring Christmastime log fire.

Photo taken at low light with phone camera 

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Newly discovered comet photographed during solar eclipse

Newly discovered comet photographed during solar eclipse

The comet was first spotted by Thai amateur astronomer Warateth Boonplod on December 13, a day before the eclipse in satellite data. NASA said on Saturday. He was participating in the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project – a citizen science project that invites anyone from the United European Space Agency and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, to discover new comets in images. NASA said…

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Scientists spot new comet during solar eclipse.

Scientists spot new comet during solar eclipse.

As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers, a little tiny speck was flying past the Sun — a recently discovered comet. This comet was first spotted in satellite data by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project — a citizen science project that invites anyone to search for and discover new comets in…

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Astronomer discovers rare comet during total solar eclipse

Astronomer discovers rare comet during total solar eclipse

Image Source : PTI Astronomer discovers rare comet during total solar eclipse An astronomer has spotted a little tiny speck flying past the Sun which is a recently discovered rare comet, as the world witnessed the total solar eclipse this month. This comet was first spotted in satellite data by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project, as Chile and…

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SOHO keeps on doing the business

SOHO – the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory – doesn’t have quite the profile of the likes of Hubble and Spitzer, but we have two recent reminders of its value to science.

The 4000th comet is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside (that is, about 1.6 million kilometres away from) the 3999th. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams

First the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) announced that it had identified the 4000th comet discovered by SOHO since its launch in 1995: not bad for a mission not designed to find comets nor to last anywhere near that long.

A joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency, SOHO is looking at the Sun, in part via the onboard Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument. The comet watching is done largely by citizen scientists through the Sungrazer project, and they’ve now discovered well over half of all known comets.

“This is exciting for many reasons, but perhaps mostly because LASCO is discovering comets that are otherwise completely unobservable from Earth due to their proximity to the Sun,” says NRL’s Karl Battams.

The second development is closer to core business. SOHO, via its Michelson Doppler Imager, provided a good chunk of the data recently used by German scientists to map the flow of the magnetic field that drives the Sun’s activity.

Writing in the journal Science, a team led by Laurent Gizon from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research describes its use of helioseismology – probing the Sun’s interior with acoustic oscillations, much as seismology uses of earthquakes to investigate Earth’s interior.

“Seeing the geometry and the amplitude of motions in the solar interior is essential to understanding the Sun’s magnetic field,” Gizon says.

Ionised gas inside the Sun moves toward the poles near the surface and toward the equator at the base of the convection zone. Credit: MPS / Z-C Liang

Over each 11-year solar cycle, the Sun’s magnetic activity comes and goes. During solar maximum, large sunspots and active regions appear on its surface, loops of hot plasma stretch throughout its atmosphere and eruptions of particles and radiation shoot into interplanetary space. During the solar minimum, things calm down considerably.

A striking regularity appears in the so-called butterfly diagram, which describes the position of sunspots in a time-latitude plot, and solar physicists have suspected this is linked to the deep magnetic field being carried toward the equator by a large-scale flow.

To test this, Gizon and colleagues analysed helioseismology data from 1996 to 2019 provided by SOHO and the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG), which combines six ground-based solar telescopes in the US, Australia, India, Spain and Chile.

They found, they say, that the flow is equatorward at just 15km/hr at the base of the convection zone (at a depth of 200 thousand kilometres) but poleward at up to 50km/hr at the surface. The overall picture is that the plasma goes around in one gigantic loop in each hemisphere.

The time taken for the plasma to complete the loop is approximately 22 years, providing the physical explanation, Gizon says, for the 11-year cycle. And sunspots emerge closer to the equator as the solar cycle progresses, as is seen in the butterfly diagram.

“All in all, our study supports the basic idea that the equatorward drift of the locations where sunspots emerge is due to the underlying meridional flows,” says co-author Robert Cameron.

SOHO keeps on doing the business published first on https://triviaqaweb.weebly.com/

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O primeiro do ano! Cometa mergulha no Sol pouco após ser descoberto

Nesta segunda-feira (13), o primeiro cometa descoberto em 2020 já foi vaporizado, após mergulhar no Sol. Ainda sem receber um nome, ele havia sido descoberto por um observador amador chamado Worachate Boonplod, na Tailândia, e não existe mais.

O objeto espacial fazia parte do grupo de Kreutz, classificação dada a fragmentos que têm órbitas rasantes ao Astro-Rei e integravam cometas muito maiores milhares de anos atrás. A situação foi retratada em uma postagem no Twitter pelo diretor do Sungrazer Project, da NASA.

And the first comet discovery of the decade goes to… SOHO! 🏆☄️(Of course!) This tiny Kreutz-group sungrazer was spotted overnight by @worachate, cruising through the LASCO C3 field of view (and plunging to its doom).

[📷: @ESA/@NASA/@USNRL SOHO/LASCO, https://t.co/pGnh6KYAXw] pic.twitter.com/Af8AhO1clv

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