John J. Kavelaars

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JJ Kavelaars is a Canadian astronomer who was part of a team that discovered several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. His full name is J-John Kavelaars.

Dr. Kavelaars is a graduate of the Glencoe District High School in Glencoe, Ontario, the University of Guelph, and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is currently an astronomer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, B.C.

In the course of his work, he has been responsible for the discovery of about twenty or so satellites (moons) of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and a hundred or so minor planets. Dr. Kavelaars is the Coordinator of the Canada France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) which is part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey CFHTLS: a project dedicated to the discovery and tracking of objects in the outer solar system.