Citations:astroboffin

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English citations of astroboffin

Noun: "(UK, Australia, informal) an expert in a field relating to the stars, especially astronomy"

astroboffin

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• 1999 June 11, Widget, “New Astrology Font for FREE...!”, in alt.astrology‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Hello Astroboffins
  I just wanted to let you know that I have just created an alternative Astrological Font called Widget

• 2008, Lewis Page, "Quasar scrutineers use entire galaxy as telescope lens", The Register, 15 December 2008:

  A team of crafty astroboffins say they have managed to probe the guts of a quasar ten billion lightyears away - using nothing less than an entire galaxy as the main lens of their telescope.

• 2012, Brid-Aine Parnell, "Star sacrifices 2,000 comets a DAY to cloak twin planets in dust", The Register, 13 April 2012:

  Astroboffins using a new multinational observatory have spotted evidence of two planets orbiting nearby star Fomalhaut – which is just 25 light years away and cloaked in a comet graveyard.

• 2012, Neil McAllister, "North Korea's satellite a dud, say US astroboffins", The Register, 17 December 2012:

  North Korea may have successfully launched a satellite into orbit, as reported last week, but it might as well have deployed a pile of scrap metal, US-based astroboffins say.

• 2012, "Spotted! Planet that could support life", Pakistan Today, 20 December 2012, page 14 (reprint of Brid-Aine Parnell, "Boffins spot planet that could support life... just 12 light years away", The Register, 19 December 2012):

  An international team of astroboffins have discovered that the nearest single Sun-like star has one planet orbiting in the sweet spot for potential alien life.