[FPSPACE] All the myriad worlds...

[DwayneDay]

I wrote a semi-serious article for The Space Review this week.

It is about planetary astronomy and the discovery of more planets in our solar system:

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/442/1


When I'm not in prison I'm an astronomer
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, August 29, 2005

Believe it or not, there is a pecking order among astronomers. One would have assumed that once they graduated high school, finally escaping the jocks and the other alpha males (and females) of social hierarchy, and then acquired ridiculously expensive educations in arcane disciplines, astronomers would become a pretty egalitarian community of nerds. But this is not quite true...