Family
He married Nancy Lou Zissell; they had a daughter, Cynthia, and a son, Jonathan. He credits his mother for inspiring his interest in astronomy when she showed him an solar eclipse on September 10th 1942; that the date and time could be projected far in advance very much impressed him.
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