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  • (observatory roof clunking open)

  • - My biggest thing that I like to do is discover stuff.

  • And not necessarily things

  • that have already been discovered.

  • I really like to discover things

  • that haven't been discovered yet.

  • If you take an asteroid and you discover an asteroid,

  • for example,

  • even though there's half a million of 'em out there,

  • that's one you've found.

  • Nobody else in the world knew about that asteroid

  • before you saw it.

  • (ambient space music)

  • (rapid sproing)

  • (background space music)

  • What I've been doing here lately,

  • and for about 15, 16 years now,

  • I've been working with near-Earth objects.

  • My observations contribute to making sure

  • that we don't have something comin' up

  • that's gonna fall on our heads.

  • Kind of first got into it, probably 10, 12 years old.

  • I was beggin', beggin', beggin' to get a telescope,

  • but then, you know, we weren't a very rich family,

  • so it took a while to get it.

  • And one Christmas I got telescope.

  • Then, I started usin' it, then I got aperture fever.

  • You want bigger telescopes all the time.

  • So, I started learning how to build 'em.

  • (quick, perky music)

  • I learned how to work in a machine shop.

  • I can build things that I wanted to build.

  • And a lot of that was astronomy parts.

  • I kind of modified my life to fit this study,

  • this kind of life-long study.

  • (intensifying, perky music)

  • (clock ticking)

  • Sandlot is a very tiny little observatory.

  • It's only 10 foot by 10 foot wide.

  • The telescope I built,

  • over a period of about year and a half,

  • and it may not look very polished,

  • it works really well.

  • I'm good with that.

  • (ambient space music)

  • (rapid clicking)

  • (rapid clicking)

  • (rapid droning)

  • I don't have a degree in astronomy,

  • I have a passion for astronomy,

  • and I've done it for many, many years,

  • and I've contributed, I think,

  • to the scientific body of astronomy.

  • That's really kind of a, yeah,

  • from that standpoint, I am an astronomer.

  • (ambient space music)

(observatory roof clunking open)

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この裏庭の天文学者は300個の小惑星を発見し、その数を数えています。 (This Backyard Astronomer Has Discovered 300 Asteroids and Counting)

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    許大善 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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