David J. Asher
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David J. Asher (born 1966, Edinburgh) is a British astronomer, who works at the Armagh Observatory (IAU code 981) in Northern Ireland.[1]
He is known for the meteor research that he conducts with Robert McNaught. In 1999 and 2000, they accurately gauged when the Leonids meteor shower would peak, while underestimating the peak intensities.[2]
He has also acted in a Hollywood movie. His chief interests include orbits and dynamics of comets and meteors.
Asher has done his doctorate from Oxford and he has also studied mathematics at Cambridge.
[edit] References
- ^ "David Asher". http://star.arm.ac.uk/~dja/dja.html. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
- ^ Chang, Kenneth (2001-11-13). "Coming Soon: Prime View of a Meteor Shower". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/13/science/13LEON.html?pagewanted=1. Retrieved 2010-01-31.[dead link]
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