Michael A'Hearn
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| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
Michael F. A'Hearn is an astronomer and professor at the University of Maryland who was the principal investigator for the NASA Deep Impact mission. He received his bachelors in science at Boston College and his Ph.D in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has aided in the development of systems for surveying abundances in comets as well as techniques for determining the sizes of cometary nuclei which uses opitical and infared measurments.
His studies focus on comets as well as asteroids and he also supervises numerous graduate students. In 1986 for contributions to cometary science and is an elected fellow of the AAAS. He has authored over 100 papers published in journals and is also an avid sailor who has a commercial coast guard license.[1]
Asteroid 3192 A'Hearn was named after him.
