Name Amy Mainzer | Role Astronomer | |
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Born January 2, 1974 (age 50) ( 1974-01-02 ) Institutions Jet Propulsion Laboratory Alma mater Stanford UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles Education Similar People Laura Danly, Lisa Randall, Michelle Thaller, Alexei Filippenko, Deborah Berebichez | ||
Nationality United States Citizen | ||
Nasa women s history month profile amy mainzer
Amy Mainzer (born January 2, 1974) is an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. She is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Principal Investigator for the NEOWISE project to study minor planets and the proposed Near Earth Object Camera space telescope mission.
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- Nasa women s history month profile amy mainzer
- Jpl astronomer amy mainzer admits the sun possibly has a binary brown dwarf companion
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Jpl astronomer amy mainzer admits the sun possibly has a binary brown dwarf companion
Life
Mainzer received a B.Sc. in Physics from Stanford University with honors (1996), an M.Sc. in Astronomy from California Institute of Technology (2000), and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles (2003).
Her research interests include asteroids, brown dwarfs, planetary atmospheres, debris disks, star formation, and the design and construction of new ground- and space-based instrumentation.
Asteroid 234750 Amymainzer was named after her.
She appears in several episodes of the History Channel series The Universe. She also appears in the documentary featurette "Stellar Cartography: On Earth" included on the Star Trek Generations home video release (March 2010). Mainzer is also in the 2016 documentary about the life of Leonard Nimoy and the effect of Spock on popular culture called "For the Love of Spock", which was directed by Leonard Nimoy's son Adam Nimoy. As of winter 2016, she serves as the science consultant and host for the live-action interstitials on the PBS Kids series Ready Jet Go!.