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unusual facts about planetary scientist



Angioletta Coradini

Angioletta Coradini (born 1 July 1946, Rovereto, Italy – died 5 September 2011, Rome, Italy) was an Italian astrophysicist, planetary scientist and one of the most important figures in the space sciences in Italy.

Astromundus

Jonathan Lunine, an planetary scientist and physicist from the United States, is currently working here as a visiting professor who offers lectures in Planetology.


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92893 Michaelperson

It is named after Michael J. Person, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education in Bristol

The city was birthplace of Colin Pillinger, planetary scientist behind the Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and is home to Adam Hart-Davis, presenter of various science related television programmes, and the psychologists Susan Blackmore, Richard Gregory, and Derren Brown.

Gaffey

Michael James Gaffey, planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra

NEAR Shoemaker

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

William Hartmann

William Kenneth Hartmann, planetary scientist and author at the Planetary Science Institute