Stephen Thorndike

{{Short description|American high school physics teacher}}

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|name = Stephen Thorndike

|image = MrThorndike.jpg

|occupation = Teacher

|field = Physics

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Stephen Thorndike is a high school teacher. He is known for discovering, along with astrophysicist Alice C. Quillen, Epsilon Eridani c,{{cite news| url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/26/extrasolar.planet/index.html | work=CNN | title=Novel search may have found small planet | date=26 October 2002}} a hypothetical planet orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani.{{cite journal | first=A. C. | last=Quillen |author2=Thorndike, Stephen | title=Structure in the ε Eridani Dusty Disk Caused by Mean Motion Resonances with a 0.3 Eccentricity Planet at Periastron | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=578 | issue=2 | year=2002 | pages=L149–L142 | bibcode=2002ApJ...578L.149Q| doi=10.1086/344708 |arxiv = astro-ph/0208279 }} After working at the University of Rochester,[https://web.archive.org/web/20041211140937/http://astro.pas.rochester.edu/~slthorndike/ The Homepage of Stephen Thorndike] he now works as a science instructional specialist at Monroe 2 Boces in Spencerport, New York.http://www.mrthorndike.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714123101/http://www.mrthorndike.com/ |date=2011-07-14 }}