Matthew Knight

Employment

• United States Naval Academy
  2020 - Present
• University of Maryland at College Park
  2015 - 2020
• Lowell Observatory
  2008 - 2015

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (78)

• The Highly Unusual Behavior and Chemical Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
  The Planetary Science Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ae9f3d
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• Diurnal Parallax Distances for Near-Sun Objects from the Geostationary Coronagraph GOES-19/CCOR-1
  Research Notes of the AAS 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/aea073
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• Multiyear Ground-based Survey Photometry of Active Comet 103P/Hartley 2 and Centaur (2060) Chiron: A Tale of Two Comets in the Pre-LSST Era
  The Planetary Science Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ae8790
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• High nitrogen and carbon isotopic ratios in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
  Nature Astronomy 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02921-7
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• A Portrait throughout Perihelion of the NH2-rich Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
  The Planetary Science Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ae5244
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• Preliminary Nucleus Size Estimate for Kreutz Sungrazer C/2026 A1 (MAPS)
  Research Notes of the AAS 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/ae5220
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• Covertly Active Comet (139359) 2001 ME1
  The Planetary Science Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ae31ef
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• Snapshot of a new interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS has a red and featureless spectrum
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaf095
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• First JWST spectrum of distant activity in long-period comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaf046
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• Multiwavelength JWST Observations of (3200) Phaethon Show a Dehydrated Object with an Aqueously Altered Origin
  The Planetary Science Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/adceba
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• The Volatile Composition and Activity Evolution of Main-belt Comet 358P/PANSTARRS
  The Planetary Science Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad9199
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• Brightness Behavior of Distant Oort Cloud Comets
  The Planetary Science Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad8e38
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• Follow-up of the activity and composition of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with MUSE
  2024 DOI: 10.5194/epsc2020-569
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• Ejecta Evolution Following a Planned Impact into an Asteroid: The First Five Weeks
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad0fdd
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• VLT/MUSE Characterization of Dimorphos Ejecta from the DART Impact
  The Planetary Science Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad0a87
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• Constraints on the Bright Meyer Group Comet C/2023 F2 (SOHO)
  Research Notes of the AAS 2023 DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/acda9b
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• Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05811-4
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• Sodium Brightening of (3200) Phaethon near Perihelion
  The Planetary Science Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acc866
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• Observational Characterization of Main-belt Comet and Candidate Main-belt Comet Nuclei
  The Planetary Science Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acbdfe
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• Continued PSP/WISPR Observations of a Phaethon-related Dust Trail
  The Astrophysical Journal 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac83b5
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