As the sun goes down on the Skywatch column, meet the author behind it
“I just wanted some time for myself, that’s all,” Blaine, 61, told me by way of explanation when I rang him up the other day in Ithaca, N.Y., where he lives. “And The Post was very nice about it.”
Blaine isn’t an astronomer. He told me he doesn’t even consider himself an astronomy buff. He’s a journalist who likes the sky, though when he first started writing for The Post, he focused on the part of the sky that’s a whole lot closer to Earth: the clouds. Not only had Geoff heard of the light, he’d seen it — and he had a photograph of it. He and a friend had been looking at the sky from a suitably dark spot — a Christmas tree farm in Rixeyville, Va. — when they’d spotted the oblong light. It turned out to be a sounding rocket launched from Wallops Island, Va., as part of research forSince 1994, Blaine’s been a science writer at Cornell University, which, he points out, was the lead institution on the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
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