Summer 2022: I attended the Summer Science Program, Astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder for 6 weeks. Working with three other students from all around the United States, I researched the Near-Earth asteroid 1999 GJ2 using telescopes from the Sommers-Bausch Observatory. Using the Method of Gauss, I coded a program to determine the orbit elements that characterize the orbit of this particular asteroid. Following the completion of a research paper with my team, we worked with the Southwest Research Institute to repeatedly simulate the asteroid's future in 50 million years, finding that 1999 GJ2 had approximately a 2.5% chance of colliding with Earth within 80 simulations. Finally, the calculated orbital elements and orbital determination of 1999 GJ2 were submitted to and published by the Minor Planet Center.

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I took pictures using the 20” f/6.8, reflecting PlaneWave telescope at Sommers-Bausch Observatory, located at the University of Colorado Boulder. I then reduced and colorized the images.