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Nationality
  
USA

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Name
  
David Rubincam

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Born
  
February 27, 1947 (age 77) (
1947-02-27
)

Institutions
  
National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Research CouncilWolf Research and Development Group, EG&G, Inc.NASA

David Perry Rubincam, Ph.D. (born February 27, 1947) is an American geophysicist with specialties in solid earth geophysics and celestial mechanics. He has worked as a civilian scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since 1978.

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Education

He received a B.S. in Physics (1970), M.S. in Physics (1972), and Ph.D. in Physics (1973) from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Professional career

From 1974-1976 he served as a Resident Research Associate at the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council.

From 1976-1978 he served as Lead Analyst in Geophysics at Wolf Research and Development Group, EG&G, Inc.

From 1978 to present, he has served as a Geophysicist in the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He studies secular effects in the solar system such as tidal friction, the Yarkovsky effect, and the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect (YORP) effect. One of his many contributions while at NASA was conducting research to understand the dynamics of orbital decay of artificial Earth satellites. Current interests include asteroids and asteroid pairs.

Society memberships

Rubincam is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

References

David Rubincam Wikipedia


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