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I am a software engineer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. We provide support to the NASA Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope projects.

Scala is currently my favorite programming language.

I am also a writer working on my first novel. One of my goals is to get published and answer questions about my work on SciFi.SE.

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Why is the Hubble Telescope in space?
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Why Do Planets Revolve Faster When they Are Closer to Their Parent Star?
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Is "Main Sequence" a temporal sequence?
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Why is the Earth's center still hot after millions of years?
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Earth and ferromagnetism
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Why are Hubble images "Cut"
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How can I measure the mass of eclipsing binary stars?
Nov 12 '13
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Is Earth's 1g solid surface gravity unusually high for exoplanets?
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What is the oldest known prediction of constellation positions?
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Brightest star of the night sky
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