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Zaui grew up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and now lives in in Sandy, Utah. He previously lived in Lawrence, Kansas and Lee's Summit, Missouri. He earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Carthage College and has a Master's Degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah. He works in the chemical industry as a quality manager.

Wikipedia-related trivia: William D. Connor was my great-grand father's brother, Melvin R. Laird is his grandson and my great-great-grandfather helped establisth Auburndale, Wisconsin. See also this list.

Selected Zaui Photo Contribution

Crater Lake Lodge and Crater Lake from the south. July 2007.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects. The target object, Dimorphos, is a 160-meter-long (525-foot) minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos. DART was launched on 24 November 2021 and successfully collided with Dimorphos on 26 September 2022 while about 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth. The collision shortened Dimorphos's orbit by 32 minutes and was mostly achieved by the momentum transfer associated with the recoil of the ejected debris, which was larger than the impact. This video is a timelapse of DART's final five and a half minutes before impacting Dimorphos, and was compiled from photographs captured by the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO), the spacecraft's 20-centimeter-aperture (7.9-inch) camera, and transmitted to Earth in real time. The replay is ten times faster than reality, except for the last six images, which are shown at the same rate at which the spacecraft returned them. Both Didymos and Dimorphos are visible at the start of the video, and the final frame shows a patch of Dimorphos's surface 16 meters (51 feet) across. DART's impact occurred during transmission of the final image, resulting in a partial frame.

Video credit: NASAJohns Hopkins APL

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The Photographer's Barnstar
I hereby award this Photographer's Barnstar to Zaui for his numerous, outstanding, yet hitherto unrecognized photographic contributions to Wikipedia. Jcbutler 16:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


WPOR Award: Sponsored in part by the Big Gold Dude.
You are hereby granted this shiny object for all your hard work at WikiProject Oregon!
Great job with getting the portal up and running! Aboutmovies 17:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


The COTW award from WPOR.
Thanks for leading the way in last week's Collaboration of the Week!
For your work with Eastern Oregon. Aboutmovies 18:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

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