David Lincoln Rabinowitz
David Lincoln Rabinowitz at work on the NEAT project
David Lincoln Rabinowitz (* 1960 ) is an American astronomer at the University of Yale whose main research areas are the Kuiper Belt and the Outer Solar System .
Together with Michael E. Brown and Chad Trujillo , he discovered several trans-Neptunian objects :
Alone he discovered the centaur asteroid 5145 Pholus .
The asteroid (5040) Rabinowitz was named after him.
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| SURNAME | Rabinowitz, David Lincoln |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |