User:Tom Peters

Tom Peters

PhD in chemistry 1992

Linux, astronomy, calenders, and many other things.

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Articles I started:
10977 Mathlener

Abbo of Fleury

astronomical opposition

citizen of Paris

Common Era ? (I think: looks familiar...)

day ? (I think: looks familiar...)

delta-T

divination

eclipse cycle

epact

ephemeris time ? (I think: looks familiar...)

Ephemeride Lunaire Parisienne

fumocy - forced to move to personal page User:Tom_Peters/Fumocy

Gaussian gravitational constant

Hipparchic cycle

Marcomer

month, synodic_month

proleptic julian calendar

scaphion

Sudines

Theon of Alexandria

tidal acceleration

Tivoli Service Automation Manager

Tivoli_Provisioning_Manager

atomic time ephemeris time universal time

tropical year

Articles I rewrote:
computus (Was: Calculating the date of Easter)

Dionysius Exiguus

easter

eclipse

Greenwich Mean Time GMT UTC

Hipparchus (astronomer) (also: Hipparchus and Hipparchos)

Kidinnu

Naburimannu

Nabonassar

leap second

Limbourg brothers

new moon

full moon

orbit

saros

Spanish_dollar

year

Some other contributions:
Aloysius Lilius

Aratus

arctic circle

astronomical conjunction

Berossus

Callippus

Callippic cycle

deferent and epicycle

discovery of precession

Egyptian calendar

fortune telling

Gaussian year

gravitational constant

Gregorian calendar

Hypatia

la Belle Alliance

leap day

leap year

lunar month

lunar node, lunar orbit, lunar precession

Merowig (previously Merovech, Meroveus etc.)

Meton

Metonic cycle

history_of_the_English_penny

Pheidippides

pound sterling

precession, precession of the equinoxes

Ptolemy

right ascension

Roma_and_Sinti

Salian Franks

secular