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The Medicine Chest

Falling stars

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Title

Falling stars

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Astronomy See all items with this value
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics See all items with this value
Marine and Antarctic Research Centre for Innovation and Sustainability See all items with this value
Ichthyology See all items with this value

Description

Marine biologists studying whalesharks use the pattern-recognition technique, developed in 1986, that astronomers use to analyze data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Studying the spatial relationships between a whaleshark's spots form the basis for creating a unique identifier for each shark.

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The Memory of Water See all items with this value

Date Created

1986

Source

Jackson, J. 1841. What to observe; or, the traveller's remembrancer. London: John Murray.

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pattern recognition See all items with this value
medicine chest See all items with this value
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mathematics See all items with this value
algorhythm See all items with this value
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The Memory of Water

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