David Lincoln Rabinowitz

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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.