Andrew Prentice

Andrew Prentice was a member of the lecturing staff at Monash University, Clayton; he received a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://monash.edu/news/show/inaugural-vice-chancellors-awards-for-education-and-research|title=Outstanding Staff Honoured|date=26 October 2011|publisher=Monash University}}

In 2014 the ALMA radio telescope started observing the inner regions around young stars,{{cite web | url=https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/alma-campaign-provides-unprecedented-views-of-the-birth-of-planets/ | title=ALMA Campaign Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets | ALMA }} such as HL Tauri and AS 209,File:Safe havens for young planets AS 209.tif{{cite web |title=Safe havens for young planets |url=https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1905a/ |website=eso.org |access-date=4 February 2019 |language=en}}]]where planets were thought to be forming. To the surprise of the astronomical community ALMA found that most of these stars are encircled by sets of concentric rings, similar to those described by Prentice in 1978,{{cite journal|author=Prentice, A.J.R.|year=1978|title=Origin of the solar system – I: Gravitational contraction of the turbulent protosun and the shedding of a concentric system of gaseous laplacian rings|journal=The Moon and the Planets|volume=19|issue=3|pages=341–398|doi=10.1007/bf00898829|bibcode = 1978M&P....19..341P |s2cid=123376299}} rather than continuous disks.

Prentice has made a long list of controversial predictions about the nature of our Solar System in an attempt to demonstrate the validity of his Modern Laplacian Theory. Critics have dismissed the theory pointing out that the convectively driven 'supersonic turbulence' proposed by Prentice is theoretically impossible and that his gas rings would be dynamically unstable,{{citation |author=J. J. Monaghan |year=1995 |title=Flaws in the Modern Laplacian Theory |journal=Earth, Moon, and Planets |volume=71 |issue=1–2 |pages=73–84 |doi=10.1007/bf00612871 |bibcode=1995EM&P...71...73M|s2cid=121661431 }} but to the surprise of many of his colleagues, NASA missions have confirmed that many of his deductions from the theory were remarkably accurate. Some of his best known predictions are:[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/monmag/issue13-2004/research/stars.html Journey to the origin of the Solar System (Monash Magazine article)]

• In 1977, Prentice hypothesised that a rocky moon belt existed at four planetary radii from Jupiter's centre. Two years later, such a rocky ring was discovered, though closer to Jupiter than Prentice had predicted.
• He predicted that Uranus had two more moons or moonlet streams than commonly thought. Nine years later, a new moon (Puck), was discovered to be orbiting Uranus, in addition to a family of nine moonlets.
• In 1981, Prentice theorised that the mass of Saturn's moon Tethys was in fact 20–25% larger than the generally predicted level. Three months later, it was confirmed to be 21% larger than previously thought.
• In 1989, he predicted that Neptune had four additional dark moons, at 5, 3.5, 2.5 and 1.8 radii in Neptune's equatorial plane. By the end of the year, four dark moons were discovered in Neptune's equatorial plane at 7, 3, 2.5 and 2.1 radii.
• He predicted that dry ice would be the main carbon-bearing chemical on Triton. Three years later, infrared devices confirmed this.

• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=2006 |title=Saturn's Icy Moon Rhea: A Prediction for its Bulk Chemical Composition and Physical Structure at the Time of the Cassini Spacecraft First Flyby |journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1071/as05041 |arxiv = astro-ph/0512115 |bibcode = 2006PASA...23....1P |s2cid=55521338 }}
• {{cite book |author1=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |author2=Jontof-Hutter, D. |year=2005 |title= Highlights of Astronomy, Vol 13 |chapter= Origin and bulk chemical composition of mercury |editor= O. Engvold |pages= 73–74 |volume=13}}
• {{cite journal |author1=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |author2=Dyt, C. P. |year=2003 |title=A numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent convection relating to the formation of the Solar system |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=341 |issue=2 |pages=644–656 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06454.x |bibcode = 2003MNRAS.341..644P |doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal |author1=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |author2=Dyt, C. P. |year=2001 |title=A Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Turbulent Convection Relating to the Formation of the Solar System |journal=NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N |volume=02 |issue=39526}}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1999 |title=Origin, bulk chemical composition and physical structure of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter: A post-Galileo analysis |journal=Earth, Moon, and Planets |volume=87 |issue=1 |pages=11–55 |doi=10.1023/A:1010692812892 |bibcode = 1999EM&P...87...11P |s2cid=55834227 }}
• {{cite journal |author1=Dyt, C. P. |author2=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1998 |title=A numerical simulation of supersonic thermal convection |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=296 |issue=1 |pages=56–65 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01240.x |bibcode = 1998MNRAS.296...56D |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1996 |title=Origin and bulk chemical composition of the Galilean satellites and the primitive atmosphere of Jupiter: A pre-Galileo analysis |journal=Earth, Moon, and Planets |volume=73 |issue=3 |pages=237–258 |doi=10.1007/bf00115883 |bibcode = 1996EM&P...73..237P |s2cid=122900208 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1996 |title=Internal structure and bulk chemical composition of Io: A pre-Galileo prediction |journal=Physics Letters A |volume=213 |issue=5–6 |pages=253–258 |doi=10.1016/0375-9601(96)00156-9 |bibcode = 1996PhLA..213..253P }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1993 |title=The Origin And Composition of Pluto And Charon – Chemically Uniform Models |journal=Proceedings Astronomical Society of Australia |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=189–195 |doi=10.1017/S1323358000025649|bibcode=1993PASA...10..189P |s2cid=115810027 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, A. |year=1991 |title=Voyage to the Origin of the Solar-System |journal=Search |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=101–103}}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1990 |title=Iron Silicate Fractionation and the Formation of the Inner Planets |journal=Meteoritics |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=399–400|bibcode=1990Metic..25R.399P }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1990 |title=Neptune Triton – A Moon Rich in Dry Ice And Carbon |journal=Proceedings Astronomical Society of Australia |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=364–367 |bibcode=1990PASA....8..364P |doi=10.1017/S1323358000023742 |hdl=2060/19900007359 |s2cid=118280966 |hdl-access=free}}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1989 |title=Neptune: Predicted origin and composition of a regular satellite system |journal=Physics Letters A |volume=140 |issue=5 |pages=265–270 |doi=10.1016/0375-9601(89)90937-7 |bibcode = 1989PhLA..140..265P }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1986 |title=Uranus: Predicted origin and composition of its atmosphere, moons and rings |journal=Physics Letters A |volume=114 |issue=4 |pages=211–216 |doi=10.1016/0375-9601(86)90209-4 |bibcode = 1986PhLA..114..211P }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1984 |title=Formation of the saturnian system: A modern Laplacian theory |journal=Earth, Moon, and Planets |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=209–228 |doi=10.1007/bf00056200 |bibcode = 1984EM&P...30..209P |s2cid=123634348 }}
• {{cite journal |author1=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |author2=ter Haar, D. |year=1979 |title=Formation of the regular satellite systems and rings of the major planets |journal=The Moon and the Planets |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=43–62 |doi=10.1007/bf00897054 |bibcode = 1979M&P....21...43P |s2cid=122103729 }}
• {{cite journal |author1=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |author2=ter Haar, D. |year=1979 |title=Origin of the jovian ring and the galilean satellites [3] |journal=Nature |volume=280 |issue=5720 |pages=300–302 |doi=10.1038/280300a0 |bibcode=1979Natur.280..300P |s2cid=4340580 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1978 |title=Origin of the solar system – I: Gravitational contraction of the turbulent protosun and the shedding of a concentric system of gaseous laplacian rings |journal=The Moon and the Planets |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=341–398 |doi=10.1007/bf00898829 |bibcode=1978M&P....19..341P |s2cid=123376299 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1976 |title=Supersonic Turbulent Convection, Inhomogeneities of Chemical Composition, and the Solar Neutrino Problem |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=59–70 |bibcode=1976A&A....50...59P }}
• {{cite journal |author=Prentice, Andrew J. R. |year=1973 |title=On Turbulent Stress and the Structure of Young Convective Stars |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume=27 |pages=237–248 |bibcode=1973A&A....27..237P }}

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