Dr. Fred Espenak is an astrophysicist who works at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He is best known for his work on eclipse predictions. He is the author of several canonical works on eclipse predictions, such as the Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986–2035 and Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses: 1986–2035. He also publishes eclipse bulletins for NASA. An astrophysicist is a person whose profession is astrophysics. ... Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center. ... Photo taken during the French 1999 eclipse An eclipse (Greek verb: ecleipo, to cease existing or calypse, to cover ) is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. ... NASA logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...
Asteroid 14120 is named in his honour. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...
Again a part of NASA's Near Earth Object program, making a speciality of this sort of thing!
Eclipse Home Page ~ Painstakingly maintained by FredEspenak of NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Centre, this site 'strives to be the ultimate resource for online information about eclipses.' From an astronomical perspective it most certainly is - anything you'd ever wish to know is here!
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Space Flight ~ This site is an online reference of information about astronomy, astrobiology, space flight, physics and other areas of science and mathematics, both conventional and more speculative, such as teleportation and time travel.
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