Podcaster: Rob Sparks. Guest: Scott Sheppard
Title: NOIRLab – The Discovery Of The Fastest Moving Asteroid
Organization: NOIRLab
Links: https://www.facebook.com/NOIRLabAstro ; https://www.instagram.com/noirlabastro/ ; https://www.youtube.com/noirlabastro ; @NOIRLabAstro
Description:
Scott Shepperd normally studies objects in the distant solar system. Recently he turned his attention toward the inner solar system and discovered the fastest moving asteroid currently known. In this podcast, Scott tells the fascinating tale of the discovery and what we can learn about our solar system from these objects
Bio: Rob Sparks is in the Communications, Education and Engagement group at NSF’s NOIRLab in Tucson, Arizona
Scott Sheppard received his B.A. in physics from Oberlin College and his M.S. and Ph. D. from the University of Hawaii, where he was also a teaching assistant and a research assistant. Before becoming a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institute For Science in 2007, he was a Carnegie Hubble Fellow. He studies the dynamical and physical properties of small bodies in our Solar System, such as asteroids, comets, moons and trans-neptunian objects (bodies that orbit beyond Neptune).
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