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Karen J. Meech (born 1959) is an American planetary astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawaii.[2]

Minor planets discovered: 9[1]
see § List of discovered minor planets

Career


Karen Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their relation to the early Solar System. She is also very active in professional-amateur collaboration and science teacher education and was the founder of the Towards Planetary Systems (TOPS) high-school teacher / student outreach program that helps educate science teachers in the Pacific islands. She received her PhD in Planetary Sciences in 1987 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS from Rice University in Houston in 1981, and has received several awards in her career, including the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1988 and the American Astronomical Society's H. C. Urey Prize in 1994.

She was a co-investigator on the Deep Impact mission and current co-investigator on the NASA Discovery missions EPOXI and Stardust-NExT. For all three of these missions she has coordinated the world's Earth-based and space-based observing programs. She is the PI of the University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute lead team which focuses its research on "Water and Habitable Worlds". She is currently the President of the International Astronomical Union Division III (Planetary Systems Science).


Honors


The outer main-belt asteroid 4367 Meech, discovered by Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory in 1981, is named in her honor.[3]


List of discovered minor planets


(228229) 1998 MO1727 June 1998list
(356386) 2010 OK4924 June 2004list
(469361) 2001 HY6526 April 2001list[A]
(551000) 2012 UQ16929 May 2003list[A]
(553412) 2011 OR4629 May 2003list[A]
(557417) 2014 UQ17830 May 2003list[A]
(562541) 2016 AL5630 May 2003list[A]
(565078) 2017 BR4731 May 2003list[A]
(566268) 2017 RH6130 May 2003list[A]
Co-discovery made with: A M. W. Buie

References


  1. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  2. "Faculty list". Institute for Astronomy. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  3. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(4367) Meech". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 375. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4318. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.



На других языках


- [en] Karen Jean Meech

[fr] Karen Jean Meech

Karen Jean Meech (née en 1959) est une astronome américaine spécialisée en planétologie.

[ru] Мич, Карен

Карен Мич (Karen Jean Meech; род. 1959) — американский астроном, специалист по планетной астрономии, а также астробиолог и педагог. Доктор философии, сотрудница Institute for Astronomy[en] Гавайского университета. Отмечена рядом отличий. Особо она занимается вопросом происхождения воды на Земле.



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