David L. Rabinowitz

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David Lincoln Rabinowitz working at the NEAT-Project
Asteroids discovered: 9
90377 Sedna[1][2] November 14, 2003
90482 Orcus[1][2] February 17, 2004
(120178) 2003 OP32[1][2] July 26, 2003
(120348) 2004 TY364[1][2] October 3, 2004
136199 Eris[1][2] October 21, 2003
136472 Makemake[1][2] March 31, 2005
(175113) 2004 PF115[1][2] August 7, 2004
(349933) 2009 YF7 December 19, 2009
(353222) 2009 YD7 December 16, 2009
(382004) 2010 RM64[3][4] September 9, 2010
  1. 1 with M. E. Brown
  2. 2 with C. A. Trujillo
  3. 3 with M. E. Schwamb
  4. 4 with S. W. Tourtellotte

David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University. He has built CCD cameras and software for the detection of near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects,[1] and his research has helped reduce the assumed number of near-Earth asteroids larger than 1 km by half, from 1,000–2,000 to 500–1,000[2] He has also assisted in the detection of distant solar system objects, supernovae, and quasars, thereby helping to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system and the dark energy driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Collaborating with Michael E. Brown and Chad Trujillo of the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team, he has participated in the discovery of several plutoids:

although he would not get credit for Haumea.

Together with Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona and his Spacewatch Team, Rabinowitz discovered or co-discovered other astronomical objects including:

Notes

  1. ↑ David Rabinowitz overview
  2. ↑ NASA report on the reduction of the number of near earth asteroids.
  3. ↑ The Astrophysical Journal.
  4. ↑ BBC report.
  5. ↑ Brown, Michael E.; Schaller, Emily L. (15 June 2007). "The Mass of Dwarf Planet Eris". Science 316 (5831): 1585. Bibcode:2007Sci...316.1585B. doi:10.1126/science.1139415. PMID 17569855. 
  6. ↑ M. E. Brown, A. H. Bouchez, D. L. Rabinowitz, R. Sari, C. A. Trujillo, M. A. van Dam, R. Campbell, J. Chin, S. Hartman, E. Johansson, R. Lafon, D. LeMignant, P. Stomski, D. Summers, P. L. Wizinowich Keck Observatory laser guide star adaptive optics discovery and characterization of a satellite to large Kuiper belt object 2003 EL61, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 632, L45 (October 2005) Full text from Caltech
  7. ↑ Memphis Archeological and Geological Society.
  8. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight.


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