Profile: eric_433

Your personal background.
An astronomer from when I can't remember, one of my earliest recollections is having a yellow cresent moon made of felt to play with.

My two most memorable observations was finding the Asteroid Eros as a teenager and watching it fade and brighten as it rotated during the 1975 close approach, and the other was the privilage of seeing comet Hyakutake from a dark site in Portugal covering half the sky, and realising what the ancents meant by comets having a "hairy" tail.

In the fortunate position to be working just three days a week, and volunteer for a couple of charities in my spare time.

This BONIC is easy, the computer does all the work (although its only on a simple HP stream laptop, I will never expect to get in the top 100,000).

The thing that actually takes up my time is volunteering for Distributed Proofreaders
Your opinions about Asteroids@home
Have an affinity to Asteroids (having a collection of Meteorites!)

Almost gave up initially, as the first couple of WU downloaded, had a due date that was impossible to complete (my HP stream laptop takes about 11 hours CPU time to complete, much longer elapsed as don't leave laptop on all the time).

But revisted a couple of days later and the WU had achievable due dates, so must have just been a jam up of uncompleted WU.
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