| 词条 | Jeff Kanipe |
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Jeff Kanipe (born September 8, 1953, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a science writer and author of astronomy books. In high school Jeff was a percussionist and he was the drummer of a garage band. BiographyJeff received a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He's been a science writer and editor for over 25 years, working as an editor for several space magazines including StarDate and Astronomy. For a period in the early 2000s he served as skywatching columnist at SPACE.com[1] and host of the popular Ask the Astronomer forum. Occasionally he writes articles for such sites as well as scholarly magazines like Nature,[2] but his real passion is writing astronomy books. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Authors Guild. Asteroid 84447 Jeffkanipe is named in his honor, for his discovery of the earliest known prediscovery image of the asteroid, previously known as 2002 TU240.[3] Reader reviews{{quote|I've been waiting since the 1980s. Now it's happening. We're getting an expanded, updated successor to the legendary Burnham's Celestial Handbook.|Alan MacRobert, Sky & Telescope, December 2015.}}{{quote|We're doomed! ... or not. In The Cosmic Connection, Jeff Kanipe tackles the Earth's place in the universe, and how other denizens and aspects of the cosmos have contributed to the development of life here. Yet, they may also have led to mass extinctions in the past and may yet again in the future. The cosmos giveth and the cosmos taketh away, it seems.[4]}}FamilyJeff is married to Alexandra Witze, a correspondent for Nature magazine. They live in Boulder, Colorado, where Jeff is sometimes interviewed on astronomy topics for the Boulder Daily Camera[5]. Jeff has two daughters: Hayley Bond, an archaeologist, and Carly Kanipe, a veterinary pathologist[6]. His brother, David Kanipe, is a former NASA engineer and retired from teaching aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station.[7] Books
References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2003-09-29-star-gazing_x.htm |title=Places to get some stars in your eyes |author=Shawn Sell |publisher=USA Today |date=July 31, 2003}} 2. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7136/full/446600a.html |title=A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away |author=Jeff Kanipe |journal=Nature |date=April 5, 2007 |volume=446|issue=7136 |doi=10.1038/446600a |pages=600–604|bibcode = 2007Natur.446..600K }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01/05/arps-phantom-jet/|title=Arp's Phantom Jet |author=Jon Voisey |publisher=Universe Today |date=January 5, 2010}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://simplycharly.com/einstein/jeff_kanipe_the_cosmic_connection_review.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-02-16 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203150416/http://simplycharly.com/einstein/jeff_kanipe_the_cosmic_connection_review.html |archivedate=2010-02-03 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite news |last1=Brennan |first1=Charlie |title=Boulder County skywatchers thirsting for super blood wolf moon |url=http://www.dailycamera.com/science_environment/ci_32393270/boulder-county-skywatchers-thirsting-super-blood-wolf-moon |accessdate=14 February 2019 |publisher=Daily Camera}} 6. ^https://vetmed.iastate.edu/story/carly-kanipe 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://aero.tamu.edu/about/advisory-board?id=10 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-05-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610022028/http://aero.tamu.edu/about/advisory-board?id=10 |archivedate=2010-06-10 |df= }} External links
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