Biography:Stephen Thorndike
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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 as a professor at the University of Rochester,[3] he now works as a high school physics and astronomy teacher at Odyssey Academy in Greece, New York.[4]
Notes and references
- ↑ "Novel search may have found small planet". CNN. 26 October 2002. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/26/extrasolar.planet/index.html.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1086/344708. Bibcode: 2002ApJ...578L.149Q.
- ↑ The Homepage of Stephen Thorndike
- ↑ http://www.mrthorndike.com
