User:Renerpho

Hello! I am Renerpho, or Daniel Bamberger in real life.

While this Wikipedia account was created in 2015, and I have occasionally edited on the German Wikipedia since 2012, I only really began to consider myself a "Wikipedian" in 2018. I never really bothered to create a user page, but the tower of user boxes below characterizes me well enough.

Conflicts of interest with regards to minor planet names

This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles:

The following minor planet names were suggested by me. I have edited some of the associated articles.

I do have a conflict of interest (COI) about Loren C. Ball, who is a friend of mine and the discoverer of 128345 Danielbamberger,^[a] and I have made a few edits to his article over the years. In the case of Matt Parker and Pi Day,^[b] I did not declare that conflict of interest initially, because my involvement had not been revealed at that time. (I had asked to stay anonymous.)

Named Asteroid	Provisional	Date of naming	Naming citation	References
16095 Lorenball	1999 TA₂₄₉	8 November 2019	American amateur astronomer Loren C. Ball (b. 1948) is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Between 2000 and 2004 he discovered more than 100 asteroids from his Emerald Lane Observatory in Decatur, Alabama. Ball currently promotes asteroid education in schools and on social media.	JPL · MPC
38048 Blumenbach	1998 UL₁₈	3 February 2025	Ulrich Blumenbach (b. 1964) is a German literary translator. He is best known for his translation of David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest.	JPL · IAU · Reddit
46925 Bradyharan	1998 SS₂₇	3 February 2025	Brady John Haran (b. 1976) is an Australian-British video journalist and filmmaker. On his YouTube channels, which include Periodic Videos and Numberphile, he frequently collaborates with academics and other educational YouTubers.	JPL · IAU · Twitter/X · YouTube
314159 Mattparker	2005 FW₁	15 August 2024	Matthew Thomas Parker (b. 1980) is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, and science communicator based in the United Kingdom. His “Stand-up Maths” YouTube channel has gained more than one million subscribers. Parker's Pi Day (March 14) challenges, where he calculates (by hand) π with the help of volunteers, have popularized mathematics.	JPL · IAU · YouTube

I have also helped other people with the naming of certain asteroids. Some of these are listed below. I did not choose these names, pick the asteroids, or write the citations.

Guy Wells is a friend and colleague of mine.^[c] I have no particular connection to the name Taowu, but may edit that article occasionally out of a general interest (rather than a personal one) in the object itself.

Named Asteroid	Provisional	Date of naming	Naming citation	References
72834 Guywells	2001 HQ₁₆	31 March 2018	Guy Wells (b. 1976) is a British-Grenadian amateur astronomer and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He has created Northolt Branch Astro, a group of amateur astronomers who seek to increase public interest in astronomy. He provides follow-up observations of Near Earth asteroids to the Minor Planet Center.	JPL · MPC · HNA
471325 Taowu	2011 KT₁₉	3 February 2025	One of the Four Perils of Chinese mythology, Taowu is a ferocious and stubborn beast said to lurk within the western regions of China. It is depicted as having a human head, tiger legs, boar tusks, and a long tail.	JPL · IAU

"Can you help me name an asteroid after X?"

No. If you want to suggest a name for an asteroid, I am not the right person to contact. See https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/documentation/NamesAndCitations.pdf for how this works.

Notes

^ My edits: [1] Some of these, like this one about the naming of 62701 Davidrankin, were not without personal connection. I recused from making edits directly linked to my person, like this one (by a different user) about the asteroid that Loren had named after myself.
^ My relevant edits to Matt Parker: [2] -- And to Pi Day: [3]
^ See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Renerpho for my declaration of the COI that I have in relation to this.

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WHO ENTER HERE

12Y

This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on December 8, 2012 (12 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 6 days ago).

de

Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.

en-3

This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

math-3

This user can contribute with advanced mathematical skills.

E=\gamma mc^{2}

This user understands Physics at an advanced level.

\scriptstyle {\frac {\partial ^{2}\Psi }{\partial t^{2}}}=\nabla ^{2}\Psi

This user is interested in mathematical physics.

This user is interested in fractals.

\textstyle {\frac {\partial }{\partial x}}\,\;

This user only partially understands mathematics.

This user knows that real monkeys lack the randomness required to type Shakespeare, but still understands the concept of infinity.

\int \!\,

This user knows that

\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }n=-{\frac {1}{12}}

(NYT 2014 reference/archive)

Erdős 6

This user has an Erdős number of 6.

This user believes science, practiced through the scientific method, is the
most reliable way of determining the
nature of reality.

This user is old enough
to know better!

This user is interested in space-related articles.

This user participates in the
Solar System task force.

This user participates in
WikiProject Astronomy.

The owner of this page is named after asteroid 128345.

This user has seen 8 of the eight planets either through a telescope or naked-eye.

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This user doesn't care whether Pluto is a planet or not – but IAU's 2006 redefinition of planet was a linguistic-philosophical embarrassment.

This user is interested in Celestial mechanics and Astronautics

ACADEMIC JOURNAL

This user has had his/her work published in an academic journal.

This user expects an Impact event during their lifetime. ^†

This user is interested in the space age.

This user prefers the metric system.

UTC

This user's time zone is UTC.

This user loathes, but is forced to observe, daylight saving time.

This user believes in a solid oblate spheroid-shaped Earth, not a flat, hollow, nor spherical one.

This user may be a bit eccentric, but is definitely not demented.

This user is a mammal.

This user is interested in human impacts on the environment.

This user is interested in geology.

This user is interested in Paleontology.

This user would like to wish you a safe and prepared Velociraptor Awareness Day.

The ancestors of this user hunted
mammoth and mastodon.
So how was your day?

RD

Non cogito ergo usorarcam sum.

This user is fascinated by tornadoes, but has never encountered one and does not wish to.

This user loves the Spring.

This user enjoys works of
Horror.

This user misses David Foster Wallace.

This user thinks they might have too many userboxes. Oh well...

This user supports
FC Schalke 04.

This user plays the
pipe organ.

This user plays the piano.

This user does not have perfect or relative pitch.

This user enjoys klezmer.

This user enjoys jazz music.

This user enjoys classical music.

This user enjoys heavy metal music.

This user likes stupid signs

This user lives in Marburg.

This user is an amateur Historian.

This user is a genealogist.

This user has published a book.

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This user has full understanding of the Kurrent form of Fraktur.

This user is interested in his local history.

This user is interested in the Protestant Reformation.

This user is interested in the early modern period.

This user valiantly served in The Great April Fools' Day Edit War of 2020.

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This user's ACTUAL userbox tower has infinity userboxes, so I cut it off here to not make you go crazy

Currently, this editor has earned the Veteran Editor service award.

To get to the next level, Veteran Editor II, he needs to meet the editing requirement.

Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 2567 / 4000 ]

64.2% completed

[1] My edits: [1] Some of these, like this one about the naming of 62701 Davidrankin, were not without personal connection. I recused from making edits directly linked to my person, like this one (by a different user) about the asteroid that Loren had named after myself.

[2] My relevant edits to Matt Parker: [2] -- And to Pi Day: [3]

[3] See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Renerpho for my declaration of the COI that I have in relation to this.

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