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  1. @mike_peel Prophetic tweet it turns out! 5:49 AM May 25th via Echofon in reply to mike_peel
  2. And another Gamma Ray Burst just before midnight (UT), so 3 in one day. Trying to make up for a lacklustre May! 12:09 AM May 22nd via Echofon
  3. @moggotlover Yes. 3:52 AM May 21st via Echofon in reply to moggotlover
  4. And another GRB today, just gone off now. See swift.ac.uk/about/status.p… 2:11 AM May 21st via Echofon
  5. Which is probably something like 2 neutron stars colliding and merging into a black hole. Rather cool methinks! 12:05 AM May 21st via Echofon
  6. Just back at work after Amsterdam last week. Arrived just after a GRB went off. One of the rarer, short ones. 12:05 AM May 21st via Echofon
  7. All things considered, it's amazing any of me is still alive really. ;S 8:19 AM May 17th via Echofon
  8. When I'm sat in a conference, and the chair shows the "5 mins left" sign and the speaker says, "Oh. I'll speed up", part of me dies. 8:19 AM May 17th via Echofon
  9. There was a GRB last night..at last! Sorry for the delay in posting, I'm in Amsterdam for a meeting. 7:40 AM May 14th via Echofon
  10. Really should deal with those permanently unread emails in my inbox... 1:50 AM May 8th via HootSuite
  11. Swift detected 10 GRBs in March but only 4 in April. We're on duty this week. Nothing yet. C'mon Swift, give us a good one! 11:58 PM May 2nd via Echofon
  12. @e_astronomer I don't feel so bad about not being important enough to be invited now! 12:14 AM Apr 25th via Echofon in reply to e_astronomer
  13. And Gaaia will have 938 megapixels. Slightly beats my Canon EOS. 2:09 AM Apr 24th via Echofon
  14. Nice start to a talk, "Gaia will be launched next year, and will observe a billion objects" 2:08 AM Apr 24th via Echofon
  15. Meanwhile Swift detected a GRB yesterday. Looked boring but... it's at z=0.28 (~2bn lyr), one of the closest GRBs found to date. 2:22 AM Apr 23rd via Echofon
  16. Greetings from London. I'm sat in the Royal Society building today, overlooked by Isaac Newton's photo, for a 2day meeting on transients. 2:18 AM Apr 23rd via Echofon
  17. @suthers I note that all of the injured were ignoring the "Fasten Seat Belt" sign.... 6:09 AM Apr 17th via Echofon in reply to suthers
  18. Question to fellow astros: is it just me, or is the number of "invitations" to submit to "open access journals" shooting up? 6:08 AM Apr 17th via Echofon
  • Name Phil Evans
  • Location Leicester, UK
  • Web http://www.star.l...
  • Bio I am an astronomer, working on the Swift Gamma Ray Burst hunting satellite.
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