Brett J. Gladman

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Brett J. Gladman is a Canadian astronomer and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy, in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy.

He is best known as discoverer or co-discover of many astronomical bodies in the solar system, including the moons of Uranus: Caliban and Sycorax. He also studies the celestial mechanics (dynamics) of small bodies in the Solar System.

Gladman was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society in 2002. Asteroid 7638 Gladman is named in his honor.

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