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In real life, Bob and Jerry are two professional astronomers who spend most of their time researching the universe. Bob is a professor at Michigan Technological Universityin Houghton, Michigan, USA, while Jerry is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA. They are two married, mild and lazy guys who might appear relatively normal to an unsuspecting guest. Together, they have found new and unusual ways of annoying people such as staging astronomical debates.Most people are surprised to learn that they have developed the perfectrandom number generator.

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day

Robert Nemiroff's participation in APOD is supported, in part, by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff(MTU) &Jerry Bonnell(UMCP)
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