This user has been editing wikipedia for 11 years, 4 months and 13 days, and as an IP address for 11 years, 10 months and 20 days. I'm ranked somewhere between 5,900 and 6,000 on that big list, with ~14,090 edits as of Juny 2018
badges, barnstars & cookies
The Barnstar of Good Humor!
Hello Exoplanetaryscience.Recently you have signed my guestbook! Thank you very much for signing my guestbook. Cheers.--Pratyya(Hello!) 07:48, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you very much for your kind message on my talk page, I am honoured that you were thinking of RfA. I'm not sure whether I'm coming or going to be honest, I left for a few months at the beginning of August, and had a look in a few months later but couldn't build up any enthusiasm. It's more than likely I'll come back at some point, but we'll see. Thank you for your support. All the best, Matty.007 12:01, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your tireless work in improving the categorization of Solar System bodies. JorisvS (talk) 13:20, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
The Current Events Barnstar
Barnstar for keeping the New Horizons and Pluto articles as up to date as possible. Well done!!! --LL221W (talk) 05:51, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for keeping an eye on the John Bowman Lindsay article and reverting the maniac who keeps trying to change the spelling. Given the DNB, his grave stone and signature (and every other reference) all spell it Lindsay, I can't imagine what the mystery "changer" is trying to prove! Dorset100 (talk) 21:53, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
This user expects an Impact event during their lifetime.†
This user adamantly considers both PlutoandEris to be "Planets"
Projects being undertaken
Project Category Sort Terminology - to come up with an efficient and easily-navigable way to browse through categories on wikipedia.
Project NGC objects - to make a wikipedia article for every object in the NGC catalog - all 7840 of them.
Outside of wikipedia
Project Milky Way - an attempt at making a 3D catalog of every star with a measured parallax in the Milky Way
Project Solar System - another projection attempt, this one making a 3D map of the Solar System, every asteroid and comet and planet.
Project Galaxies - Yet another projection to make a 3D map of every galaxy with a measured redshift.
Project ZOAG - To map every galaxy and nebula hidden in the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) - the area that the Milky Way covers - using SDSS and DSS images.
And many more.
Whatever's going on in X1-12 right now
Astronomy contributions
Helped recover 2008 VM49 (SDSS observations in early 2009 that expanded the observation arc from a few days to a couple months, allowing further recovery by the Mount Lemmon Survey and PANSTARRS).
Precovered 2013 FZ27 from SDSS observations in 2001
Precovered 2011 GM27 from SDSS observations in 2006.
Precovered 2004 XR190 from SDSS observations in 2002.
Precovered 311P/PANSTARRS from SDSS observations in 2005.
Discovered nearly 50 asteroids from SDSS data - unknown amount of them have been since recovered.
Discovered nearby binary star 2MASS J18352154–3123385, with estimated distance of 27 +/- 8 light years. Gaia observations will determine distance more certainly.
Precovered 2015 DB216 from SDSS observations in 2003
Precovered 2014 UM33 from SDSS observations in 2009
Co-co-co-co-co-co-co-discoverer of Planet Nine (With M. Brown, K. Batygin, C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. De la Fuente Marcos, C. Trujillo, and S. Sheppard)
Discoverer of the Vulcanids
Discoverer/Presenter of the Psyche-Hesperia hypothesis
United States
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