It's something that occurs only once in a decade or so, he says, and the underlying process governing these white dwarfs "will launch an entirely new field of research".
It is difficult to shake up the Brussels bureaucracy, but a consensus is building that next year might offer an opportunity of a kind that only arises once in a decade.
Until recently, astronomers thought that significant impacts on Jupiter should occur only about once in a decade.
But in only a decade it has been profound.
It might be – but only in about a decade's time.
However, even in countries like the UK, where a national agency (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) is funded to carry out this process, guidelines may only be updated once in a decade.
The building, which dates back to 1897, was moved to that particular spot only in 1977, a decade after Hopper's death.
He'd perished from an undiagnosed heart ailment, and it's only in hindsight, a decade and a half later, that I can finally see that as tragic.
He founded the American Academy in Berlin, which in only a decade and a half has elevated the cultural and educational exchanges between Germany and the United States.
Before the spill, deepwater production in the Gulf had climbed in only a decade from a trickle to 1.2 million barrels a day, and it was expected to climb an additional 400,000 barrels a day by 2012.
