Stephen Thorndike
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American high school physics teacher
Stephen Thorndike | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
Stephen Thorndike is a high school teacher. He is known for discovering, along with astrophysicist Alice C. Quillen, Epsilon Eridani c,[1] a hypothetical planet orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani.[2] After working at the University of Rochester,[3] he now works as a science instructional specialist at Monroe 2 Boces in Spencerport, New York.[4]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Novel search may have found small planet". CNN. 26 October 2002.
- ^ Quillen, A. C.; Thorndike, Stephen (2002). "Structure in the ε Eridani Dusty Disk Caused by Mean Motion Resonances with a 0.3 Eccentricity Planet at Periastron". The Astrophysical Journal. 578 (2): L149 – L142. arXiv:astro-ph/0208279 . Bibcode:2002ApJ...578L.149Q. doi:10.1086/344708.
- ^ The Homepage of Stephen Thorndike
- ^ http://www.mrthorndike.com Archived 2011年07月14日 at the Wayback Machine