# Bad Influence story: Will Depue launches $100,000 amateur astronomy research grant

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 16:40. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/6a0e1e47-7c61-49e6-8bfd-a270172aca87

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Latest update (11-11 16:40): Will Depue launches $100,000 grant for amateur astronomy research

Overview: Will Depue says he is launching a $100,000 grant for amateur astronomy research, with applications open through claudestronomy.com. He says he and collaborators used Claude and Codex to find a new dwarf planet in public telescope data. Depue describes it as about a quarter the width of Pluto, orbiting beyond Neptune, and says Joshua Wolk is still confirming the discovery. He also says more objects remain in public NASA and ESA databases.

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