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First of all, some personal data:

I am: Maik Meyer and that's what I look like.
I was born 1970 in the wonderful little town of Frauenstein/Saxony and now I live in Limburg.
Since 16 August 2002, I am married with Sara. This is a picture after our marriage. On August 18, 2003, our son Joris Benjamin was born and on March 4, 2006, our second son Tilmann Arne.
I work as the head of the DKD laboratory for form and roughness and as a member of the centre of competence of measuring technology at Taylor Hobson in Wiesbaden.

Hobby: comet observation
I am Assistant Editor of the International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) and founder of the Comets Mailing List.
Images taken at the Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2002 Conference in Berlin.
With my friend Gary W. Kronk I am currently co-authoring volumes 5 and 6 of Cometography. A further project dealing with the history of comet hunting is in preparation.
ICQ-Observer-Code: MEY
Number of observed comets since December 1987:

112

My equipment for the observation of comets:
- A 10"-Dobsonian
- A superb 20x100 Miyauchi binocular with 45 deg inclined eyepieces and changeable eyepieces (37x). Excellent!!
- A 6" refractor (f/5)

Feel free to mail: maik@comethunter.de

Some results of my amateur work:

The Meyer comet group
An unknown comet of 1991
40 SOHO comets
16 minor planets
I have done some pre(dis)covery work on comets and minor planets. These include
- Orbit improvement for comet C/1996 R3
- Comet P/2003 L1 (Scotti)
- Comet 159P/2003 UD16 (LONEOS)
- Comet 160P/2004 NL21 (LINEAR), see also A/CC
- Comet 163P/2004 V4 (NEAT), see also my special page.
- Comet 170P/2005 M1 (Christensen)
- Comet 186P/2003 B3 = 1977 O1 (Garradd)
- The Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2003 VS2
- The Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2004 DW
- The Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) 2004 SB60
- The Possibly Hazardous Object (PHO) 2003 FC5
- Comet P/2003 QX29 (NEAT)
- Comet C/2003 S3 (LINEAR)

In January 2004, the minor planet (52005) Maik was named after me by the discoverers:

Maik             52005          Graduate Engineer

(52005) Maik = 2002 CL13
     Discovered 2002 Feb. 8 by C. W. Juels and P. R. Holvorcem at
Fountain Hills.
     Maik Meyer (b. 1970), an amateur astronomer whose passion is
comets, identified the Meyer Group of near-sun comets in 2002.  Since
1998 he has authored the Catalogue of Comet Discoveries that is
available on the Internet, and he has also been serving as an assistant
editor of the International Comet Quarterly.

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