3 Feb
2013
3 Feb
'13
8:47 a.m.
The cool part is, Patrick's minor planet discoveries are *his alone, in the entire universe*. People who "discover" supernovae are merely the first humans to see them. They were almost certainly discovered by beings in the host galaxy, or a galaxy closer to the event than us. Or even a being on a planet in our own galaxy between earth and the supernova. Even classical novae, unless very close to earth, have a chance of being seen by others closer to them, before us.