David L. Rabinowitz
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David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University studying the Kuiper belt and the outer solar system.
Mr. Rabinowitz works with high resolution cameras in a team with Michael E. Brown and Chad Trujillo, that has discovered trans-Neptunian objects, among them:
- 90377 Sedna - possibly the first known inner Oort cloud object.
- 90482 Orcus
- 136199 Eris - the dwarf planet larger than Pluto.
- (136108) 2003 EL61
- (136472) 2005 FY9
Along with the Spacewatch Team headed by Tom Gehrels at the University of Arizona, he co-discovered one other astronomical object: