Name Bonnie Buratti | Role Astronomer | |
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Through the eyes of scientists meet bonnie buratti
Dr. Bonnie J. Buratti is a planetary astronomer in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she leads the Comets, Asteroids, and Satellites Group. Her research involves the composition and physical properties of planetary surfaces, and volatile transport in the outer solar system.
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- Through the eyes of scientists meet bonnie buratti
- Dawn journey to the beginning of time dr bonnie buratti
- Education
- Career
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Dawn journey to the beginning of time dr bonnie buratti
Education
Buratti received an M.S. in Earth and Planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and PhD in Astronomy and Space Sciences from Cornell University.
Career
The missions with which Dr. Buratti has been involved include the Voyager Program, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft and the New Horizons space probe. For her work with the Cassini program she was awarded the NASA exceptional achievement medal in 2006. Dr. Buratti also does educational outreach at the college and grade school level. Currently Dr. Buratti is on the science team of the New Horizons project which will explore Pluto and its moons. In 2014 she was elected Chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The asteroid 90502 is named after Dr. Buratti. In November 2015 Dr. Buratti was named the NASA Project Scientist for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union