Local AI LLM Astronomy Research Ideas

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Links to references from the video and other interesting references:

Openthinker 32b – Ollama
https://ollama.com/library/openthinker:32b-q8_0/blobs/7b54a5e6b244

NASA
Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)
“Sentry: Earth Impact Monitoring”
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology
“Small-Body Database Lookup”
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/

International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN)
“2024 YR4”
https://iawn.net

“Potential Asteroid Impact Notification”
https://iawn.net//documents/NOTIFICATIONS/IAWN_Potential_Impact_Notification_2024_YR4.pdf

UN Office for Outer Space Affairs
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, Sixty-second session
“Status Report by the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG)”
https://www.unoosa.org/res/oosadoc/data/documents/2025/aac_105c_12025crp/aac_105c_12025crp_6_0_html/AC105_C1_2025_CRP06E.pdf

ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre
“Close Approach Fact Sheet for Asteroid 2024 YR4”
https://neo.ssa.esa.int/

The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center
“2024 YR4 – Initial report observation by ATLAS Chile, Rio Hurtado on 2024-12-27”
https://minorplanetcenter.net/

Asterank
https://www.asterank.com/#composition

MediaCollege.com
“Meade LX200 10 inch Telescope”
https://www.mediacollege.com/equipment/meade/lx/lx200-10.html

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics (CCPP)
“Making the Sky Searchable: Fast Geometric Hashing for Automated Astrometry” (Roweis, Lang, & Mierle; Hogg & Blanton)
https://cosmo.nyu.edu/hogg/research/2006/09/28/astrometry_google.pdf