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Konstantin Batygin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. [3] His father, Yuri Konstantinovich Batygin, worked as an accelerator physicist in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute until 1994, when he moved along with his wife Galina [4] and their family to Wakō, Japan, and began working at the particle accelerator facility in RIKEN. [3]
Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation.
Radebaugh is a Science Team member of the Dragonfly mission to Titan, the IVO Io mission proposal, and the Mars Median project. She was an Associate Team Member of the Cassini-Huygens RADAR instrument from 2008 to 2017, and was a graduate student scientist for Io for the Galileo mission.
A voting session is conducted in 2006 International Astronomical Union's general assembly for determining a new definition of a planet. An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
In August 2006, Green became the Director of the Planetary Science Division at the NASA Headquarters. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In that role he served as a spokesman for NASA for planetary missions, for instance announcing the likelihood that there was once flowing water on Mars in September 2015. [ 7 ]
Carl Edward Sagan (/ ˈ s eɪ ɡ ən /; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator.His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light.
Meenakshi Wadhwa received her Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences in 1994 from Washington University in St. Louis. She was a postdoctoral research geochemist at University of California, San Diego (1994–95), and then became curator of meteorites at Field Museum of Natural History (1995–2006).
Amanda R. Hendrix (May 21, 1968) is an American planetary scientist known for her pioneering studies of solar system bodies at ultraviolet wavelengths. [1] [2] She is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. Her research interests include moon and asteroid surface composition, space weathering effects and radiation products. [3]