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I am mostly interested in helping to improve astronomy-related articles. I am a NASA astrophysicist and tend to create/edit articles about people and projects that are familiar to me. If you feel any article I work on is too close to me, please let me know.

COI

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My work on Wikipedia via this account is my own, entirely voluntary, and does not relate to positions I hold at NASA or on any astronomy projects or astronomy organizations. Nothing I write or do via this account reflect the official position of any of the aforementioned organizations.


My authorships:

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Robert A. Woodruff
Stephen P. Maran
Lauri Wylie
Dark Energy Space Telescope
Robert A. Woodruff
Tod R. Lauer
Rachel Somerville
N. Jeremy Kasdin
Thomas Zurbuchen
Pierre Cox
Engeltrude de Fézensac
Anders de la Motte
Ultragotha
Hibernation (spacecraft)
Period-Luminosity Relation
Ursicinus of Cahors
Amber Straughn

Aki Roberge

Paul L. Hertz

Sun Hong Rhie

Makenzie Lystrup
(and may write) Jason Rhodes, Alina Kiessling, Suvi Gezari, Cassandra Michaud, Maiya Pina-Dacier, Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, Roman/WFI, Roman/CGI, Jack Foister, Faileuba, Martin Cohen (astronomer), Rubato Piano Competition, Adeltrude, 35 Frenchmen, Geneva Mason



Entries to which I have contributed include:

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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
NGC 6872 and IC 4970
Childebert I
Childebert II
Ermengarde of Anjou
House of Ingelger
Seaxburh of Wessex
Nancy Grace Roman
Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope now Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Noise-equivalent flux density
Gariannonum
Henry Wriothesley 3rd duke & his mother, Mary Browne
(and my to-do list) Robert Curthose, Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye
Need to look at fixing: Vortigern, Fastrada, Theodrada, Luitgard, Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye.

I am part of a course taught by Wiki Education that trains scholars in how to edit Wikipedia. Learn more at wikiedu.org. All of my contributions are my own and I take responsibility for them.