David C. Jewitt

Asteroids Discovered : 39
(10370) Hylonome 1	February 27, 1995
(15760) Albion 1	August 30, 1992
(15807) 1994 GV 9 2	April 15, 1994
(15809) 1994 JS 1	May 11, 1994
(15820) 1994 TB 2	October 2, 1994
(15836) 1995 DA 1 2	February 24, 1995
(15874) 1996 TL 66 1 2 3	October 9, 1996
(15875) 1996 TP 66 1 3	October 11, 1996
(15883) 1997 CR 29 2 3	February 3, 1997
(19308) 1996 TO 66 1 3	October 12, 1996
(20108) 1995 QZ 9 2	August 29, 1995
(20161) 1996 TR 66 1 2 3	October 8, 1996
(24952) 1997 QJ 4 1 3 4	August 28, 1997
(24978) 1998 HJ 151 1 3 5	April 29, 1998
(32929) 1995 QY 9 2	August 31, 1995
(33001) 1997 CU 29 1 2 3	February 6, 1997
(58534) Logos 1 2 3	February 4, 1997
(59358) 1999 CL 158 1 3	February 11, 1999
(66652) Borasisi 1 3	September 8, 1999
(79360) Sila-Nunam 1 2 3	February 3, 1997
(79969) 1999 CP 133 1 3	February 11, 1999
(79978) 1999 CC 158 1 3 6	February 15, 1999
(79983) 1999 DF 9 1 3	February 20, 1999
(91554) 1999 RZ 215 1 3	September 8, 1999
(118228) 1996 TQ 66 1 2 3	October 8, 1996
(129746) 1999 CE 119 1 3	February 10, 1999
(131695) 2001 XS 254 6 7	December 9, 2001
(131696) 2001 XT 254 6 7	December 9, 2001
(131697) 2001 XH 255 6 7	December 11, 2001
(134568) 1999 RH 215 1 3	September 7, 1999
(137294) 1999 RE 215 1 3	September 7, 1999
(137295) 1999 RB 216 1 3	September 8, 1999
(148112) 1999 RA 216 1 3	September 8, 1999
(148975) 2001 XA 255 6 7	December 9, 2001
(168700) 2000 GE 147 3 6	April 2, 2000
(181708) 1993 FW 1	March 28, 1993
(181867) 1999 CV 118 1 3	February 10, 1999
(181868) 1999 CG 119 1 3	February 11, 1999
(181871) 1999 CO 153 1 3	February 12, 1999
(181902) 1999 RD 215 1 3	September 6, 1999
1together with Jane Luu 2together with Jun Chen 3together with Chad Trujillo 4thtogether with K. Berney 5together with David J. Tholen 6thtogether with Scott S. Sheppard 7thtogether with Jan Kleyna

David C. Jewitt (* 1958 in North London ) is Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Together with his doctoral student Jane Luu , he discovered the first object of the Kuiper belt in 1992 : the Cubewano (15760) Albion (formerly "1992 QB ₁ ").

David C. Jewitt

Jewitt earned his bachelor's degree in astronomy from the University of London in 1979 and his master's degree from Caltech in 1980 , where he received his PhD in 1983 . In 1983 he became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and moved to the University of Hawaii in 1988 as an associate professor and from 1993 as a professor. In 2009 he became a professor at UCLA, where he heads the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets.

In 2007 he was Adjunct Professor at the National Central University in Taiwan.

His research is particularly concerned with the objects of the outer solar system , of which he and his colleagues have discovered 39 so far, and the physical properties of comets . In addition, he was involved in the discovery of several small moons on the planet Jupiter .

For 2012 he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Jane Luu and the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics with Jane Luu and Michael E. Brown . In 1998 he became a Fellow of University College London and in 1996 Scientist of the Year in Hawaii. In 1996 he received an Exceptional Achievement Award from NASA . The asteroid (6434) Jewitt was named after him in 1996. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2006 he became an honorary professor at the National Astronomical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and in 2012 he became an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers

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