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If you’re still here and still interested, here’s a bit about me: I am an occasional scientist and an almost-published novelist writing adult contemporary romance and young adult sci-fi/fantasy. For five years from 2010 to 2015, I sweated through a Ph. D. in asteroid orbital dynamics in Tucson at the University of Arizona. If this sort of thing thrills you, feel free to visit my planetary science website here. If you have a lot of time and a sincere affection for inner main belt asteroids, you can even download a PDF of my dissertation, “Asteroid Dynamics in the Inner Main Belt.”
Or instead, if you prefer dissertations condensed into one page and written in Dr. Seuss’s anapestic tetrameter, read my Dissertation Summary Poem here.
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