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Welcome!

I am an aspiring solar system astronomer and planetary scientist, currently beginning my undergraduate study in astrophysics at 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 as additional hobbies. 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 These old GAs are now fairly outdated and I don't have the motivation to rewrite these unfortunately.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. 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]



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 2018 VG18 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 {{reflist|refs= }} 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: This is an example.<ref>{{cite web|title=Example|url=example.com|date=2009-09-09|accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Example1|url=example.com|date=2005-04-20|accessdate=2019-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Example3|url=example.com|date=2009-09-09|accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref>
  • 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!

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. 2020 AV2 (Jan 2020)
  2. 2020 BX12 (Feb 2020)
  3. 2020 CD3 (Feb 2020)
  4. P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS) (May 2020)
  5. 2MASS J10475385+2124234
    (May 2020)
  6. 2020 SO (Sep 2020)
  7. WD 1856+534 (Sep 2020)
  8. (523764) 2014 WC510 (Sep 2020)
  9. 2020 VT4 (Nov 2020)
  10. List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2021 (Jan 2021)
  11. 2021 AV7 (Jan 2021)
  12. 2020 SL1 (Jan 2021)
  13. 2020 SW (Jan 2021)
  14. 2020 XL5 (Feb 2021)
  15. 2MASS J04070752+1546457
    (March 2021)
  16. 2MASS J12195156+3128497
    (March 2021)
  17. 2MASS J03480772−6022270
    (March 2021)
  18. 2006 BZ8 (Aug 2021)
  19. 2006 RJ2 (Aug 2021)
  20. 2017 SV13 (Aug 2021)
  21. 2021 PH27 (Aug 2021)
  22. 2013 VZ70 (Aug 2021)
  23. 2016 AJ193 (Aug 2021)
  24. (155140) 2005 UD (Sep 2021)
  25. 2021 DW1 (Oct 2021)
  26. 2019 XS (Oct 2021)
  27. 2011 JY31 (Nov 2021)
  28. (35107) 1991 VH (Nov 2021)
  29. 2021 DR15 (Dec 2021)
  30. 2019 EU5 (Dec 2021)
  31. Kepler-1708b (Jan 2022)
  32. Proxima Centauri d (Feb 2022)
  33. 2022 EB5 (Mar 2022)
  34. P/2011 P1 (McNaught) (Mar 2022)
  35. 2022 FD1 (Mar 2022)
  36. 2020 BE102 (May 2022)
  37. 2021 LL37 (May 2022)
  38. 4337 Arecibo (Jun 2022)
  39. PSR J0952–0607 (Jul 2022)
  40. 2021 RR205 (Sep 2022)
  41. 2022 UR4 (Nov 2022)
  42. P/2013 R3 (Catalina–PanSTARRS) (Dec 2022)
  43. JADES-GS-z13-0 (Dec 2022)
  44. 2005 LW3 (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. (152830) 1999 VD57 (Jan 2023)
  52. 2023 CX1 (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. (98943) 2001 CC21 (Apr 2023)
  61. 17365 Thymbraeus (Nov 2023)
  62. (458271) 2010 UM26 and 2010 RN221 (Nov 2023)
  63. 2024 BX1 (Jan 2024)
  64. S/2021 N 1 (Feb 2024)
  65. S/2002 N 5 (Feb 2024)
  66. S/2023 U 1 (Feb 2024)
  67. (276049) 2002 CE26 (TBD 2023)
  68. PSR J0030+0451 (TBD 2023)

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