Comets

Society Meeting

Thursday, 2nd November 2017 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: swmcmeet

Main Belt Comets

This talk is based around the Zooniverse Comet Hunters Project. This is based around hunting for a different category of comets in the Solar System: Main-Belt Comets, those which are located in the Asteroid Belt.

The talk discusses this project, it is one which this MSAS Member also has been involved in, outside the Planet Four Project, which was discussed earlier.

Material collated and researched by Peter Jalowiczor, MSAS member in collaboration with Dr. Meg Schwamb, Gemini Observatory, North Operations Center, Hilo Hawaii.

Speaker: Peter Jalowiczor

Peter Jalowiczor is an amateur astronomer living in Rotherham. He is primarily known for co-discovering four exoplanets at home using data released to the public by the University of California's Lick-Carnegie Planet Search Team. At University he completed research confirming that k=2 (the delta effect) for comets from work on Halley's Comet. Since 2017 he has been involved in research on brown dwarfs - objects between exoplanets and stars.

He has had four books published: two about football and two about WWII. He is also the founder of a football club, known as the Polish Millers. Registered in the Polish Football league. It was mirrored on Rotherham United with a regular feature in the match programme they played in Rotherham United strip! This has also been recognised at the highest level of the Polish Football league.