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Hello,
I'm new - although I have been reading this forum for a year to make sure I really want to join first.
It was suggested that I might have AS to me by a teacher who subsequently contacted my parents (who disbelieved it). I myself are unsure until either pysical evidence (I have been reading on this and it seems there is nothing I can test myself on to prove it physically) is provided or someone specialised tells me so.

I thought I would be good to join this forum to find out more.
This is a bit about myself:
I am a 16 year old female. I have just moved house so I don't know anyone except my parents at the moment. I like freshwater tropical aquarium keeping, theoretical physics and creating my own fantasy universe and languages tht work on pseudo scientific principles. I am learning to program in Java and am starting a new school in September. I collect feathers and also minerals, rocks and fossils. I am building a 10 inch newtonian reflector telescope as a project. I can write stories.

It feels really unnatural to write like this about myself so I will not tell any more.

Welcome to WP!

So, minerals and fossils, eh? I am a geology major.

Tim

Do you know any good books on minerals that describe exactly which one you have found and what they look like and are made up of?
I have been looking for one.

I don't know of any specific books, sorry.

Tim

Welcome to WP.

My sons also love fossils!

Helen

Welcome Asha,

and you sound like you belong here. I only have a Meade 6 inch.

I have had several books on mineral identification, the best was from the university of alaska, it covered hardness and streak, specific gravity, which narrows it down where visual can chose between. I think it was called a handbook for prospectors, red cover, black print, spiral bound, so it had a lot in it, from geologic province, to testing ore.

Prospecting is still active in alaska, so some web searching of the university bookstore might work. Also mining supplies, rockhound sites. Identification was fairly simple, how it was formed, when, and what else should I be looking for, gets more complex. I spent several years prospecting, mostly rare earths.

I also write, stories became books.

Nice to meet you, Asha.

I like fossils as well mostly dinosaurs.

Mine is part of a larger project. As I'm grinding the mirror myself I need some experience first so I thought a 4 inch f10 would be easy to grind and then I can move on to a 10 inch f8 (I prefer the long focal lengths). I might have to make a dobsonian mount though.

I found a really interesting rock in July, in the Gower (Wales). It had a high iron content and was slightly magnetic and had obviously been molten. It was obviously not igneous or sedimentary and I couldn't match it to any metamorphic I knew. Also it wasn't native to the UK. I thought it might be an iron-nickle meteorite but it turned out to be a piece of rubbish from an industrial furnice shipped here as ships ballast and dumped. Pity. I would have loved a meteorite.


I'm trying to go to a child publisher. Mine are strange though. They sometimes don't have speech or even more than one person or a plot, just a track of thoughts and pictures. Still, my english teacher likes them.

Are there any other tropical aquarium keepers here?

Question: This is my first forum so I'm still working out the rules. How do I know which topic something falls under? Do you just have to guess? What happens if you put something under a wrong topic heading?

Wow! You have some very fascinating interests, and your writing sounds like it must be interesting as well. Glad to have you here at WP and I hope you will feel at home.

Simply choose the category you believe is the best fit for the thread you wish to start. You chose correctly this time. If a moderator disagrees with you, he may elect to move your thread to a more appropriate location. I don't think that will happen though--I think you'll do fine.

Thank you.

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Welcome to WP.

Theoretical Physics is very hard, I salute you for having such an interest in it.

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