| bio | website | msquant.sourceforge.net |
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| location | Århus, Denmark | |
| age | 48 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 18 at 15:44 | |
| stats | profile views | 271 |
(Last updated 2013-04-03.)
I am mostly interested in making scientifically important observations, like timing occultations of or by Solar System bodies and measuring variable stars.
I am also interested in citizen science projects and participate in some of them, like Galaxy Zoo.
I have been an amateur astronomer since 1975 and worked at the European Space agency's (ESA) technical centre in Holland, ESTEC , on the ARISTOTELES mission, an earth gravity mapping mission.
Approximate coordinates: 55°20 N, 10°20 E
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Dec 26 |
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Detecting dim objects @Chris White: thanks! |
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Jun 3 |
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What are the precise statements by Shouryya Ray of particle dynamics problems posed by Newton which this news article claims have been solved? A similar question was posed on Stack Exchange site Mathematics: Teenager solves Newton dynamics problem - where is the paper? |
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Apr 5 |
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Mass/light ratio of galaxies @Gigi Giles: no problem. Now to the 'accept' phase :-) |
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Mar 15 |
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Falling into Saturn or Jupiter, would we pass through it until we hit the nucleus? @Andrew: I think he talks about having a headache and thus not being able to enjoy to go to heaven - in the first or second episode of the original radio series. |
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Mar 14 |
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Falling into Saturn or Jupiter, would we pass through it until we hit the nucleus? @Andrew: A. Dent quote? |
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Jan 29 |
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Relation between isophotal radius and virial radius in spiral galaxies? @con-f-use: what is "B-band"? |
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Nov 25 |
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Detecting dim objects This answer could benefit from being MathJax'ed. |
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Nov 15 |
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Why did population III stars lack planets? If metals are initial building blocks, how could the (Pop III) stars form in the first place? |
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Nov 15 |
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Why did population III stars lack planets? (The Wikipedia link is a redirect. Where did you get the link? On Wikipedia itself?) |
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Oct 7 |
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New Type of Type Ia supernova. Implications to Dark Energy measurement? Dark energy is not a repulsive force. It's just a new (or at least different) kind of source for an old force — gravity. (From Dark Energy FAQ, near "Is it a new repulsive force?".) |
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Sep 16 |
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Two planets in same orbit - not planets? Exoplanetary system KOI-730 was originally thought to have co-orbital planets (in an L4/L5 configuration). |
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Sep 11 |
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The Pioneer anomaly finally explained? Another quote: "Quantum vacuum fluctuations reveal themselves in the Casimir effect, the spaceship braking effect, the photon aging effect (red-shifting) and the atom orbital electron shaking effect. Quantum fluctuations affect all elementary particles, and, respectively, travelling through the fluctuating vacuum spaceships "shake" as if traveling on the uneven road, which results in their braking. " |
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Sep 11 |
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The Pioneer anomaly finally explained? Interesting theory. Quote from the article: "Anomalous braking was discovered for all space crafts, for which such calculations were technically possible. Moreover, there are facts confirming the braking of the asteroids as well.". Do you have a source for observational data documenting the braking of the asteroids? |
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Sep 10 |
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Are there Trojan family or Hilda family satellites locked in Earth's orbit? 2010_TK7's Wikipedia page |
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Sep 8 |
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Could the Schrödinger equation be nonlinear? ("fudamental" -> "fundamental") |
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Sep 8 |
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Formula for Rotation curves of Galaxies Does this assume all orbits are circular? |
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Aug 30 |
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Why is the measured distance to the Triangulum Galaxy much more uncertain than to the Andromeda Galaxy? @Jus12: they are in the same region of the sky, on the order of 10 degrees apart. |
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Aug 30 |
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What to show a beginner M33 may be further away than the Andromeda galaxy (835 kpc ± 105 vs. 778 ± 17 kpc). "Under exceptionally good viewing conditions with no light pollution, the Triangulum Galaxy can be seen with the naked eye. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed without the aid of a telescope.". Ref 1. Ref 2. |
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Aug 26 |
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How can Y-dwarf stars have such a low temperature? The discovery is elaborated in Phil Plait's blog post WISE finds coolest brown dwarfs ever seen!. |
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Aug 4 |
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What is the strongest evidence that anti-matter exists? Is it from decay of potassium-40? |