- Warren Ellis
Warren Girade Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comics, novels, and television, well known for his sarcastic personality and sociocultural commentaries, both through his online presence and his writing. He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England.
- David Brin
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (October 6, 1950) is a well-known American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in southern California.
- John Cassaday
John Cassaday (born 1971) is an American comic book artist and writer born in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently lives in New York City. His style is highly detailed and uses relatively realistically-proportioned human characters. He is best known for his work on "Planetary" with writer Warren Ellis, "Astonishing X-Men" with Joss Whedon and "Captain America". Other earlier work includes "Desperadoes".
- Scott Dunbier
Scott Dunbier is the executive editor of the Wildstorm comic book line. After several years as a dealer in original comic book artwork during the 1980s and 1990s, Dunbier began with Wildstorm in 1995 as Special Projects Editor. Two years later, he was named Editor-in-Chief, a title which was changed to Group Editor when Wildstorm became a part of DC Comics. Among the many projects Dunbier has edited are Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line, including "Promethea", …
- Laura Martin
Laura DePuy Martin is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. She has been recognized for her work with the Comics Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Martin won the 2000 and 2002 Eisner Award for Best Colorist, as well as nominated in the 2003 and 2005 awards. Her published work to date includes various series: "Planetary", "Astonishing X-Men", "JLA", "Ruse", …
- David J. Tholen
David J. Tholen is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii, who specializes in planetary and solar system astronomy. Tholen has discovered a number of asteroids, including the lost, which may be an Apohele asteroid, and, which certainly is; in fact, it has the smallest semimajor axis and aphelion distance among the known asteroids. He won the H. C. Urey Prize in 1990.
- Robert Gover
Robert Gover (born November 1929) grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), received a BA in economics from the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a journalist, became a best-selling novelist at age 30, lived most of his life in California, and now lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. "On the Run with Dick and Jane" is his ninth novel. His previous book, "Time and Money", explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations.
- Fabrizio Bernardi
Fabrizio Bernardi (born 09 April 1972 in Pomezia/Roma) is an Italian astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii, who specializes in planetary and solar system astronomy. Bernardi has discovered a number of asteroids, including which is an Apohele asteroid; in fact, it has the smallest semi-major axis and aphelion distance among the known asteroids. He is co-discoverer of the asteroid 99942 Apophis (previously known as).
- Richard Of Wallingford
Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336) was an English mathematician who made major contributions to astronomy/astrology and horology while serving as abbot of St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. Richard was born, the son of a blacksmith, at Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) in England. When he was orphaned he was taken to William de Kirkeby the Prior of Holy Trinity Priory.
- Meredith Yayanos
Meredith Anne Yayanos is a Brooklyn, New York based violinist and thereminist. She is also a vocalist and autoharpist who has been featured on tracks with artists including The Dresden Dolls, The Vanity Set, Revue Noir, David Garland and The Walkmen. The first band she was a member of was called "Snapping Turtles". Meredith was a contributing artist to the comic book project, 9-11: Emergency Relief, created to benefit the American Red Cross in the wake of September 11th.
- Vasily Fesenkov
Vasiliy Grigorievich Fesenkov (January 13,1889 - March 12,1972) was a Soviet Russian astrophysicist. He was born in Novocherkassk. After graduating from the "Kharkov University" (1911) he entered the Sorbonne, where he defended a dissertation for the "Doctor of Science" degree in 1914. Fesenkov was one of founders of the Russian astrophysical institute (1923). It was later renamed to Sternberg Astronomical Institute, …
- Carl Sagan
As you can see I'm not that into myspace. It really only exists because I'm too lazy to click the delete account button. I really only check it once a week or so. If you really want to get a hold of me use facebook...
- Wesley T. Huntress Jr
Dr. Wesley T. Huntress holds the distinction of being chosen as the first President of The Planetary Society who was not one of the original three founding members. He succeeded Bruce Murray to the position in 2001, having served as the Society's vice-president from 2000-2001.
- Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", …
- Dave Blume
Dave entered the non-profit world by serving on the board of Ecosites International. Not content with a simple supporting role, he led survey teams to sensitive ecological sites, and there designed student study centers for these sites. In 1990, Dave joined the board of Vivamos Mejor as the director of Agroecology Projects. A year of this time was spent working in Mexico.
- Lisa R. Gaddis
Gaddis, L.R., A.S. McEwen, and T. Becker, 1995, Recalibration of Galileo EM1 SSI data for the lunar limb and far side: The effects of scattered light removal , J. Geophys. Res. -Planets, 100, 26345-26355. Gaddis, L.R., Mouginis-Mark, P., and Hayashi, J.N., 1990, Lava flow surface textures: SIR-B radar image texture, field observations, and terrain measurements , Photogramm. Eng. Rem. Sens. , 56, 211-224.
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- Walter H. Munk
Walter Munk has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, the Royal Society and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Munk has received many national and international honors including the Vetlesen Prize, Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, Bakerian Lecturer of the Royal Society, Agassiz Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Medal of Science and the Kyoto Prize.
- Audrey Rager
Audrey Rager ~ I am a Ph.D. student in the Geoscience Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. My research involves the study of terrestrial pyroclastic flows, ground surges, and impact ejecta as analogues to fluidized ejecta surrounding Martian rampart craters. My research interests include Planetary Geology, Volcanology, Igneous Petrology, Tectonics, Remote Sensing, and GIS.
- Larry Esposito
Larry Esposito Larry Esposito is the Principal Investigator for the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS). He is from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
- Lindsay Keller
Lindsay Keller (1983) is a Lunar and Planetary Scientist with NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Prior to joining NASA in 2000, Lindsay worked for MVA, a small consulting firm in the Atlanta area that specializes in electron microscopy and microanalysis services. He received his M.S. (Soil Science, 1985) at NDSU, a Ph.D in Geology at Arizona State University (1989), and held a NRC post-doctoral position at the NASA Johnson Space Center until joining MVA in 1993.
- Don Yeomans
Dr. Yeomans: One of the key science objectives is to understand the composition (structure) of a comet. Is it a solid ice ball? Is it layered like an onion? Is it a collection of bits and pieces with interior voids? Is it a very fragile object like a soufflé – a very porous object? To my mind, the key science objective is to find out what the structure of the comet’s interior is.
- Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Planetary Scientist
- Dave Dixon
Dave Dixon , Ph.D. Dave Dixon is the Chief Software Architect of Provisdom Corporation, overseeing the development of Provisdom’s software tools and applications. Dave‘s experience in the software industry includes development of algorithms for large-scale image processing for semiconductor manufacturing applications, custom information processing applications, and professional digital audio processing software.
- John Mouton
JOHN MOUTON , Ph.D. Co-Founder and CEO John Mouton , Ph.D., co-founder of Object Reservoir, has a diverse background in physics, systems engineering, systems software, strategic planning, and marketing. Mouton was one of the founders of Landmark Graphics Corporation, which is now a business unit of Halliburton Company.
- Stan Piechocinski
Stan Piechocinski Stan Piechocinski is a Software Development Specialist and Project Engineer at Neptec Design Group, where he has provided real-time support for Space Vision System at NASA's Johnson Space Center during International Space Station assembly missions. Stan has a M.Sc. in Space Science, from York University, where his research project was entitled ‘An Analysis of Lossy Data Compression Algorithm Use on Planetary Spacecraft Missions'. He also has a B.Sc.
- Tom Duxbury
Tom has served on many NASA panels and working groups such as the NASA Planetary Cartography Working Group, the NASA Planetary Cartography and Geological Mapping Working Group, the Mars Geodesy and Cartography Working Group and the Russian / US Joint Working Group on Solar System Exploration for Mars Mission Coordination and Science Data Exchange. He was a speaker for the NASA Planetary Geology Speakers Bureau.
- Daniel Britt
Dr. Britt began his career in Planetary Science with a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory studying the mineralogy of asteroids. In 1993 he served as Project Manager, Co-Investigator, and Deputy Imaging Team leader for the camera on NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander. He also participated as a Co-Investigator and Science Team member for NASA's Deep Space One mission to comet 19P/Borrelly.
- Howard Beckman
Howard Beckman Howard Beckman (Hamsavatar Das) was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA in a family, including both gemstone merchants and practitioners of law. As a child, Howard found that he had clairvoyant abilities. His awareness of such other �dimensions�, as he terms it, lead him to studying philosophy of all cultures from his teenage years.
- Lyn Doose
Lyn Doose Planetary Scientist University of Arizona
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. October 5, 1958 in New York City) is an African American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
- Guy Consolmagno
Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ (born September 19 1952 in Detroit, Michigan), is an American research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory. He obtained his B.A. (1974), M.A. (1975) degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. (1978) at the University of Arizona, all in Planetary Sciences. After postdoctoral research and teaching at Harvard College Observatory and MIT, …
- Carolyn Porco
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission <sup>,<;/sup> <sup>,<;/sup> presently in orbit around Saturn. In late 1999, she was selected by the London Sunday Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of "50 Stars to Watch". Porco was responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist, Eugene Shoemaker, …
- Friedrich Hopfner
Friedrich Hopfner was an Austrian geodesist, geophysicist and planetary scientist. As an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire he began his scientific work at the Bureau of Meteorology. In 1921 he became Chief Astronomer at the new Geodetic Survey of Austria ("Bureau of Weights, Measures and Surveying" or "Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen").
- Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in "Astrophysical Journal " from 1950 to 1955) in which he proposed the "icy conglomerate" hypothesis of comet composition (later called the "dirty snowball" hypothesis). The basic features of this hypothesis were later confirmed, however the exact amount (and thus the importance) of ices in a comet is an active field of research, …
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science. Born in Los Angeles, California, he is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
- Alan Stern
S. Alan Stern is the Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Formerly a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, he remains the Principal Investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. He was Executive Director of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division until leaving for NASA on March 21, 2007.
- Ed Stone
Edward C. Stone is a professor of physics at Caltech. He has been the project scientist of the Voyager spacecraft since 1972. He was the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California from 1991 to 2001. He was the recipient of the 1999 Carl Sagan Memorial Award.
- Chad Trujillo
Chadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo (born November 22, 1973), is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris. Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in. In late August, 2005, it was announced that Trujillo, along with Michael E. Brown and David L. Rabinowitz, had discovered Eris.
- David J. Stevenson
David J. Stevenson (born September 2,1948) is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well-known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand the internal structure and evolution of planets and moons.