Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist.[1] He has discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, which lists him as working at the Xerra Earth Observation Institute in Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand.[2] He was formerly on the staff of the University of Salford in the United Kingdom.[3]

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According to Scopus, Steel has an h-index of 13.[3] Between 1990 and 1994 he discovered twelve numbered minor planets.[4] The asteroid 4713 Steel, discovered by Robert McNaught in 1989, is named after him.[5]^: 619

In August 2022 Steel pleaded guilty to burglary and breaching the New Zealand Harmful Digital Communications Act. He was sentenced to 12 months' house arrest and ordered to pay $3000 in reparation for emotional harm.[1][6]

Books

• Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth (Wiley, New York, 1995) (with a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke).
• Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon Which Changed the Course of History (The Joseph Henry Press, Washington D.C., 2001) (with a foreword by Paul Davies).
• Target Earth (Time Life 2000; Reader's Digest 2001) (with an afterword by Arthur C. Clarke)[7]
• Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar (Wiley, New York, 2000).[8]
• Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon That Changed the Course of History (National Academies Press, Washington DC, 2001) (with a foreword by Paul Davies).

References

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