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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Index Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) is a research center for planetary science located in Tucson, Arizona. [1]

58 relations: Andrea Boattini, ARIEL, Betül Kaçar, Catalina Sky Survey, Catalina Station, Charlie Rouse, Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Daniel Apai, Dante Lauretta, David L. Rabinowitz, David Morrison (astrophysicist), Edward P. Ney, Erich Karkoschka, Ewen Whitaker, Gamma Ray Spectrometer (2001 Mars Odyssey), George Coyne, George Van Biesbroeck, Gerard Kuiper, Guy Consolmagno, Harold Johnson (astronomer), HiRISE, Huygens (spacecraft), James V. Scotti, List of astronomy acronyms, List of University of California, Berkeley alumni, List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in science and technology, LPL, Mare Orientale, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Meanings of minor planet names: 52001–53000, Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000, Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–8000, Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000, Mercury's magnetic field, Michael Julian Drake, National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico), Optics Valley, OSIRIS-REx, Palomar–Leiden survey, Peter Smith (scientist), Phoenix (spacecraft), Planetary geology, Renu Malhotra, Sarah Hörst, Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings, Timeline of United States discoveries, University of Arizona, Wiesław Z. Wiśniewski, (5836) 1993 MF, 1776 Kuiper, ..., 1777 Gehrels, 2001 Mars Odyssey, 2012 TC4, 2608 Seneca, 3099 Hergenrother, 4185 Phystech, 6Q0B44E, 78P/Gehrels. Expand index (8 more) »

Andrea Boattini

Andrea Boattini (born 16 September 1969) is an Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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ARIEL

The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL), is a space observatory planned for launch in 2028 as the fourth medium-class mission of the European Space Agency's Cosmic Vision programme.

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Betül Kaçar

Betül Kaçar is an Assistant Professor of Astrobiology at the University of Arizona.

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Catalina Sky Survey

Catalina Sky Survey (CSS; obs. code: 703) is an astronomical survey to discover comets and asteroids.

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Catalina Station

Catalina Station (CS), also known as Steward Observatory Catalina Station, is an astronomical observing facility located on Mount Bigelow in the Santa Catalina Mountains approximately northeast of Tucson, Arizona.

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Charlie Rouse

Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 – November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

The Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory was a monographic series that ran from 1962 to 1973 and covered publications and reports by the staff of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

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Daniel Apai

Daniel Apai (born 1977) is a professor and astrophysicist at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

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Dante Lauretta

Dante Lauretta (born 1970) is a Professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

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David L. Rabinowitz

David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and researcher at Yale University.

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David Morrison (astrophysicist)

David Morrison (born 26 June 1940) is an American astronomer, a senior scientist at the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

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Edward P. Ney

Edward Purdy Ney (October 28, 1920 – July 9, 1996) was an American physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy.

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Erich Karkoschka

Erich Karkoschka (born 1955) is a planetary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona.

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Ewen Whitaker

Ewen Adair Whitaker (22 June 1922 – 11 October 2016) was a British-born astronomer who specialized in lunar studies.

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Gamma Ray Spectrometer (2001 Mars Odyssey)

The Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) is a gamma-ray spectrometer on the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, a space probe orbiting the planet Mars since 2001.

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George Coyne

George V. Coyne, S.J. (born January 19, 1933) is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory's research group which is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

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George Van Biesbroeck

George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck, January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer.

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Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Peter Kuiper (born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper; December 7, 1905 – December 23, 1973) was a Dutch–American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor.

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Guy Consolmagno

Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ (born September 19, 1952), is an American research astronomer, Jesuit religious brother, and Director of the Vatican Observatory.

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Harold Johnson (astronomer)

Harold Lester Johnson (April 17, 1921 – April 2, 1980) was an American astronomer.

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HiRISE

For the Apple accessory see Twelve South High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Huygens (spacecraft)

Huygens was an atmospheric entry probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.

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James V. Scotti

James Vernon Scotti (born 1960) is an American astronomer.

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List of astronomy acronyms

This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in astronomy.

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List of University of California, Berkeley alumni

This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley.

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List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in science and technology

This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley.

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LPL

LPL may refer to.

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Mare Orientale

Mare Orientale ("eastern sea" in Latin) is a lunar mare.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 52001–53000

008 | 52008 Johnnaka || || John Yoshio Naka (1914–2004), the preeminent American bonsai master of the late 20th century.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000

019 | 6019 Telford || || Thomas Telford (1757–1834), a Scottish civil engineer and famed builder of roads, canals, bridges, tunnels and harbors.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–8000

013 | 7013 Trachet || || Tim Trachet (born 1958), Belgian journalist and science writer.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000

009 | 8009 Béguin || || The word Béguin, or "flirtation" in English, gives rise to the vigorous dance of the French West Indies, the beguine.

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Mercury's magnetic field

Mercury's magnetic field is approximately a magnetic dipole (meaning the field has only two magnetic poles) apparently global, on planet Mercury.

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Michael Julian Drake

Michael Julian Drake (July 8, 1946 – September 21, 2011), Regent’s Professor, was the Director of the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Head of the Department of Planetary Sciences.

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National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico)

The National Astronomical Observatory (Spanish: El Observatorio Astronómico Nacional—OAN), the national observatory complex of Mexico, in Baja California state.

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Optics Valley

Optics Valley is a region in southern Arizona, centered on Tucson, that is home to a high concentration of optics companies spawned by research at the University of Arizona.

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OSIRIS-REx

The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA asteroid study and sample-return mission.

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Palomar–Leiden survey

The Palomar–Leiden survey (PLS) was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U.S Palomar Observatory and the Dutch Leiden Observatory, and resulted in the discovery of thousands of asteroids, including many Jupiter trojans.

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Peter Smith (scientist)

Peter H. Smith is a Professor Emeritus (he retired in 2013) at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, where he holds the inaugural Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science.

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Phoenix (spacecraft)

Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program.

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Planetary geology

Planetary geology, alternatively known as astrogeology or exogeology, is a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of the celestial bodies such as the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteorites.

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Renu Malhotra

Renu Malhotra (born 1961) is an American planetary scientist known for using the orbital resonance between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the giant planets and to predict the existence of Plutinos in resonance with Neptune.

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Sarah Hörst

Sarah Hörst is an Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University who focuses on understanding planetary atmospheric hazes, in particular the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan.

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Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings

Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings is evidence, or analysis of evidence, about Moon landings that does not come from either NASA or the U.S. government (the first party), or the Apollo Moon landing hoax theorists (the second party).

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Timeline of United States discoveries

Timeline of United States discoveries encompasses the breakthroughs of human thought and knowledge of new scientific findings, phenomena, places, things, and what was previously unknown to exist.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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Wiesław Z. Wiśniewski

Wiesław Z. Wiśniewski (May 2, 1931 in Poland – February 28, 1994 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) was a Polish astronomer.

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(5836) 1993 MF

is a highly eccentric, stony asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group of asteroids, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.

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1776 Kuiper

1776 Kuiper, provisional designation, is a dark Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 38 kilometers in diameter.

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1777 Gehrels

1777 Gehrels, also designated, is a stony asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter.

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2001 Mars Odyssey

2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars.

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2012 TC4

is a tumbling micro-asteroid classified as a bright near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately in diameter.

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2608 Seneca

2608 Seneca, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid and sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 0.9 kilometers in diameter.

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3099 Hergenrother

3099 Hergenrother, provisional designation, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 15 kilometers in diameter.

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4185 Phystech

4185 Phystech, provisional designation, is a Florian or background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

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6Q0B44E

6Q0B44E, sometimes abbreviated to B44E, is a small object, probably an item of space debris, that is currently orbiting Earth outside the orbit of the Moon as of October 2016.

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78P/Gehrels

78P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 2, is a Jupiter-family periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 7.22 years.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_and_Planetary_Laboratory

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