Education
Andersson studied astronomy at Lund University, but received a scholarship to San Michele Observatory in on the island of Anacapri in Sicily in 1968.
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Leif Andersson
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Career
From his late teen years, he was also a well-known science fiction fan in Sweden, who chaired the MalCon in 1966 in Malmö,Sweden and took over editing the pioneering Swedish science fiction amateur journal, the Scandinavian Amateur Press Alliance (SAPA) after John-Henry Holmberg left the position some time after 1964. He studied the work of Professor Åke Wallenquist, at Uppsala University. Andersson later went to Indiana University Bloomington to complete his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Andersson calculated the first observable transits of Pluto and Charon in the early 1980s, but did not live to see them.
He mapped the far side of the moon in National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature, with co-author Ewen Whitaker. After his death from lymphatic cancer at the age of 35 in 1979, the crater Andersson on the Moon was named after him.
In honor of Leif Andersson"s work on the determination of Pluto"s pole position, the Spacewatch Asteroid Project at the University of Arizona"s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory named an asteroid in his honor in the Minor Planet Circular of 18 December 1995, p.
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