Bad Astronomer
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Philip Plait (AKA The Bad Astronomer) is an astronomer who runs the website www.badastronomy.com. He works at the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University.
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Biography
Dr. Plait grew up in the Washington, D.C. region and lived there for many years. He received his Ph.D in astronomy from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a thesis on SN 1987A, which he studied with the Supernova INtensive Study (SINS). He first worked with the COBE satellite and then with the STIS on the Hubble Space Telescope for five years.
Work
Dr. Plait currently performs web-based public outreach for GLAST, which will launch in 2005. He has appeared on the AM radio show Coast to Coast AM many times and has been featured on TV and on such websites as Space.com.
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Badastronomy.com
Badastronomy.com is a website dedicated to clearing up public misconceptions about astronomy and space science in movies, the news, print, and on the internet. It also contains Plait's debunkings of several fringe theories related to space and astronomy, such as Planet X, Richard Hoagland's writings, and most famously, the moon hoax.
Links
- Bad Astronomy Dr. Plait's bad Astronomy website.
- Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board The lively message board attached to badastronomy.com.
- GLAST
- STIS The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.
(This article is a work in progress and so may not be as well-worded as it will be when I am done with it. Correction of factual errors is also appreciated.)
