Name: Axel Emmermann
Born: 5th of June 1952
Married to Christel Franzen
Children: Elke and Sven
Born: 5th of June 1952
Married to Christel Franzen
Children: Elke and Sven
My wife Christel
and daughter Elke
and daughter Elke
and my son Sven holding "Saskia",
my daughter's snake.
my daughter's snake.
Professionally
I studied chemistry on a technical level. I've been working for more than 25 years in one of the Total labs. My job is to secure the quality of the polyethylene that we produce.
I've been active within the Antwerp Mineralogical Society for years. More specifically, I've been leading the workgroups Fluorescent Minerals and Engineering.
My collection consists almost exclusively of fluorescent minerals.
Photographing fluorescent minerals has become somewhat of a specialty and I still do it with unwavering enthusiasm.Some of my photos have been published in international publications like the French Minéreaux & Fossils" or the Finnish "Tiede" (Science). The permanent display of fluorescent minerals at the Oxford Museum of Natural Science has a series of my photos printed on glass. These glass slides make up the sides of a giant quartz crystal in whicht the display resides.
Momentarily I am Regional Vice President of the Fluorescent Mineral Society for the European region.
My collection consists almost exclusively of fluorescent minerals.
Photographing fluorescent minerals has become somewhat of a specialty and I still do it with unwavering enthusiasm.Some of my photos have been published in international publications like the French Minéreaux & Fossils" or the Finnish "Tiede" (Science). The permanent display of fluorescent minerals at the Oxford Museum of Natural Science has a series of my photos printed on glass. These glass slides make up the sides of a giant quartz crystal in whicht the display resides.
Momentarily I am Regional Vice President of the Fluorescent Mineral Society for the European region.
As a collector
As a broadminded hobbyist
I cannot content myself with "just" one hobby.
Archery, popinjay to be exact, is one of my other passions. The archer's goal is to shoot the popinjay (or papingay) of it's perch on a 95 feet pole with a blunt arrow. Not for the fainthearted, indeed! What goes up usually comes down too...
My first hobby, however, was astronomy. Not so far-fetched because fluorescence is of great importance to the astronomer. The photo on the left shows a fluorescing emission nebula surrounding a white dwarf star that produduces copious UV-rays. This immense flux of ionizing radiation keeps the fluorescence going.
As an occasional Sleuth?
From the moment that you become somewhat of a known figure on the Internet you start getting the weirdest business offers from the weirdest people. At one time I received an e-mail from a person who claimed to have in his posession some of the original moon rocks. No, not moonstone, the gemmy alkali speldspar but the real thing! Genuine rock samples that were collected on the moon by the Apollo astronauts.
I was appalled by the idea that common criminals could financially profit from these moon samples for which so many brave men had risked their lives.
I contacted the FBI with the offer to play "the interested buyer" in a sting operation to retrieve the stolen samples. In the end this story became stranger than fiction!
You may find a report of the events, and several other facts on these sites:
Collectspace
L.A.-times article
NEWSLETTER OF THE MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (go to page 12)
Naturally, the FBI and NASA showed their gratitude and recognition...
From the moment that you become somewhat of a known figure on the Internet you start getting the weirdest business offers from the weirdest people. At one time I received an e-mail from a person who claimed to have in his posession some of the original moon rocks. No, not moonstone, the gemmy alkali speldspar but the real thing! Genuine rock samples that were collected on the moon by the Apollo astronauts.
I was appalled by the idea that common criminals could financially profit from these moon samples for which so many brave men had risked their lives.
I contacted the FBI with the offer to play "the interested buyer" in a sting operation to retrieve the stolen samples. In the end this story became stranger than fiction!
You may find a report of the events, and several other facts on these sites:
Collectspace
L.A.-times article
NEWSLETTER OF THE MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (go to page 12)
Naturally, the FBI and NASA showed their gratitude and recognition...
On January 30, 2009 Thad Ryan Roberts, the criminal "mastermind", was released from the Administrative Maximum (ADX) Security facility in Florence, Colorado.
My own asteroid!
The above events had yet another after effect.
On 12/25/2004 I received an e-mail from Doctor Everett Kay Gibson in which he told me that the International Astronomical Union approved his request to rename the asteroid15513 #. This minor planet now orbits the sun under the name "Emmermann". "You will live forever in the heavens between Jupiter and Mars...", Doctor Gibson wrote.
Quite a breathtaking Christmass present since this honor is not bestowed upon people for no reason. It cannot be bought... you have to earn it!
I'm up there with some real celebrities. Here are some people that were honored with a namesake asteroid: Doctor Everett Gibson, Armand Pien (very popular Belgian meteorologist), Elvis Presley Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, Jaques Cousteau, Georges Lemaître.
The asteroid belt
My asteroid
The above events had yet another after effect.
On 12/25/2004 I received an e-mail from Doctor Everett Kay Gibson in which he told me that the International Astronomical Union approved his request to rename the asteroid15513 #. This minor planet now orbits the sun under the name "Emmermann". "You will live forever in the heavens between Jupiter and Mars...", Doctor Gibson wrote.
Quite a breathtaking Christmass present since this honor is not bestowed upon people for no reason. It cannot be bought... you have to earn it!
I'm up there with some real celebrities. Here are some people that were honored with a namesake asteroid: Doctor Everett Gibson, Armand Pien (very popular Belgian meteorologist), Elvis Presley Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, Jaques Cousteau, Georges Lemaître.
The asteroid belt
My asteroid
This man has traveled 300.000 km to pick up some rocks here. He could survive for about 20 seconds without his space suit. Should anything go wrong here, the chance of being rescued would be 0%
Fear not! My asteroid never strays within the orbit of Mars. The depicted apocalyps that my asteroid might cause exists solely in the imagination of the artists who created these images.
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