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Old 09-12-2011, 12:51 AM
Stevec35 (Steve)
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
Congratulations Steve.

The correct terminology in the Science community is "independently discovered".

Frankly the term "noted independently" is pretty lame and understates your achievement.
You are at a disadvantage that the "other discoverer" decides on the terminology.

Regards

Steven
Thanks Steven. Yes I'm not completely happy with the wording but I think that's all I'm going to get out of them and it's certainly way better than nothing. Bottom line is that they got a paper out and that gives them bragging rights even though I probably saw the cluster first. The lesson in this is that I should have pursued it much more aggressively immediately after I took the image.
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