Английская Википедия:David J. Tholen
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David James Tholen (born 1955) is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi. He holds a 1984 PhD from the University of Arizona, and specializes in planetary and Solar System astronomy. He is a discoverer of minor planets and known for the Tholen spectral classification scheme used on asteroids.[2]
Professional life
Tholen has discovered a number of asteroids, including the lost Шаблон:Mpl, which may be an Apohele asteroid, and Шаблон:Mp, which certainly is; in fact, it had the smallest semimajor axis and aphelion distance among the known asteroids (and still holds both records among numbered asteroids as of March 2010[3]). He won the H. C. Urey Prize in 1990.[4]
He co-discovered the asteroid 99942 Apophis (previously known as Шаблон:Mpl). This asteroid will closely approach Earth on April 13, 2029 and very briefly appear as bright as a third magnitude star.
In 1995, Tholen obtained images of the then newly discovered comet Hale-Bopp at a time when the comet was moving very slowly with respect to the background stars, thus permitting the red- green- and blue-filtered images to be combined into a color composite without the background stars appearing as separately colored dots. This color composite image was made publicly accessible via the Institute of Astronomy's web site.
Later, then postdoc at University of Hawaiʻi, Olivier R. Hainaut discovered that a nearly identical image was being discussed by late-night radio host Art Bell and one of his guests, Courtney Brown, who claimed that it proved the existence of an unnatural object following the comet, something supposedly seen by those who had learned how to engage in the technique of "remote viewing". The image provided to Bell by Brown, and eventually made public on Bell's web site, did indeed show an object next to the comet that did not appear in archival images of the sky. In reality, that image had been digitally altered from the original image posted by Tholen, presumably by taking the image of a star near the edge of the frame, adding it next to the comet, and then trimming away the outer edges of the frame.
Tholen and Hainaut exposed the fraud by producing the original image, which showed no such additional object. Nevertheless, some conspiracy theorists maintained that Brown's version was actually the original image and that Tholen had removed the additional object from the one on the Institute's web site. The Heaven's Gate cult was so convinced that the additional object was a spaceship coming to take them away from Earth that they committed mass suicide.
The Mars-crosser asteroid 3255 Tholen, discovered by Edward Bowell in 1980, is named after David Tholen.[2]
Personal interests
David Tholen and Roy Tucker, co-discovers of 99942 Apophis, are both fans of the TV series Stargate SG-1, which influenced the naming of the asteroid. The show's most persistent villain is "Apophis", an alien also named for the Egyptian god. "We considered a number of names, but 'Apophis' kept floating to the top," says Tucker. "Apophis was a very fitting name for Шаблон:Mp not only because of its threatening nature, but also because of its evolution from an Aten asteroid to an Apollo asteroid during the 2029 encounter."[5]
Tholen is a fan of the University of Kansas Jayhawks college basketball team and the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team.
He also plays clarinet and bass clarinet for the Honolulu Community Concert Band and the Oahu Community Orchestra.
He is also a user of the OS/2, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS operating systems.
Tholen frequently posts to various Usenet groups using the alias tholen@antispam.ham.
List of discovered minor planets
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 9 December 2001 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 5 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 4 September 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 15 September 2004 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 16 June 2004 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 8 June 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 21 July 2006 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 20 July 2001 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 7 April 2007 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 30 September 2000 | Шаблон:Small Шаблон:Ref label |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 9 December 2001 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 3 April 2000 | Шаблон:Small Шаблон:Ref label |
| Шаблон:Mp | 1 August 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 7 November 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 17 August 2004 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 29 December 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 9 December 2001 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 23 December 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 October 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 29 September 2000 | Шаблон:Small Шаблон:Ref label |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 November 2000 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 13 December 2004 | Шаблон:Small |
| Шаблон:Mp | 28 April 1998 | Шаблон:Small Шаблон:Ref labelШаблон:Ref labelШаблон:Ref label |
| 541132 Leleākūhonua | 13 October 2015 | Шаблон:Small Шаблон:Ref labelШаблон:Ref label |
| Шаблон:Mp | 24 April 2005 | Шаблон:Small |
| Co-discovery made with: Шаблон:Note label J. X. Luu Шаблон:Note label C. Trujillo Шаблон:Note label D. C. Jewitt Шаблон:Note label R. J. Whiteley Шаблон:Note label R. A. Tucker Шаблон:Note label F. Bernardi Шаблон:Note label S. S. Sheppard | ||
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite magazine (naming the asteroid Apophis and how Earth's gravity may change its trajectory in 2029)
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