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My avatar is, as many will have correctly surmised, Jupiter.
As imaged by the Cassini mission to Saturn when it flew past the king of planets.
Get the full, stunningly detailed image here
We had a bit of a discussion about where our names come from in another thread once. But it might be nice to gather it in a dedicated thread like this one.
My first name is David Alexander, peculiarily enough I go by Alexander. Hardly anyone knew I was also named David until I started appearing in the author lists of scientific papers. I deemed it would be cooler to be D. A. than just A. (seeing that others have things like M. F. M. or R. A. M. J. ...). A colleague from Italy asked me if the D. stood for Don.
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Finally, I landed here, and, well, this is like my home now.
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