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Sign Petition to Honor Jack Eddy

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:10 pm
by IntLibber
Jack Eddy was the guy who proved the existence of, and named, the Maunder Minimum. He died recently, and Dr. Leif Svalgaard is going to submit a petition to the American Astronomical Union next week to name the next grand solar minimum after Eddy.

Details here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/13/o ... y-minimum/

Eddy's bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Eddy

Petition site:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/EddyMinimum/

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:48 am
by krenshala
That's a pretty good way to name it. I've seen worse methods used for naming things before.