Finally, at the June meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Chicago, Dr. Djorgovski challenged fellow astronomers to help explain the mystery.

Nigel the Brit was one of the people whose company I sought at the dinner table, as he and his fellow astronomer, Al, were so smart and funny.

Her husband was fellow astronomer Wallace L. W. Sargent.

In 1929, he married fellow astronomer Emma T. R. Williams, who was from Philadelphia.

Charbonneau said, "I really want to dare my fellow astronomers to explain how this system could have formed," and admitted there was a bit of self interest in his challenge.

In 1952, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, then a consultant to Blue Book, conducted a small survey of 45 fellow professional astronomers.

Rather than needlessly anger more of his fellow astronomers, he simply said that the webpage had been named for his daughter and dropped "Lila" from consideration.

Kippes in turn had successfully proposed to name several asteroids after fellow amateur astronomers.

He was encouraged by his good friend back in Springfield, fellow amateur astronomer and telescope builder James Hartness.

Since 1975, Waltraut Seitter was married to Hilmar Duerbeck, a fellow astronomer.