Grey Bird Explorations

exploring music of the world, astrophysics, and all the fine things of life.

  • Gruber 2018 Cosmology Prize By observing the relic radiation from the early universe, the Planck team measured the universe’s contents and the geometry and test inflation (the preferred paradigm for the start of the big bang) with unparalleled precision.
  • Asteroid 189795 “McGehee”From the JPL Small Body Database Browser entry for asteroid 189795 “McGehee”:
    Peregrine McGehee (b. 1960), is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He is best known for his studies of star formation and the interstellar medium, and for his contributions to the SDSS I/II open cluster survey.