DAVID C. JEWITT

'David C. Jewitt' is a Professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He was born in 1958 in England, and is a 1979 graduate of the University of London. Jewitt received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His research interests include the trans-Neptunian Solar System, Solar System formation and the physical properties of comets. Along with Jane Luu, he discovered the first Kuiper belt object in 1992.
A selection of his recent publications includes:

★ ''The Nucleus of Comet 48P/Johnson'', The Astronomical Journal, Volume 127, Issue 3, pp. 1784-1790

★ ''143P/Kowal-Mrkos and the Shapes of Cometary Nuclei'', The Astronomical Journal, Volume 125, Issue 6, pp. 3366-3377

★ ''Physical Properties of Trans-Neptunian Object (20000) Varuna'', The Astronomical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 4, pp. 2110-2120

★ ''Population and Size Distribution of Small Jovian Trojan Asteroids'', The Astronomical Journal, Volume 120, Issue 2, pp. 1140-1147

★ ''Particulate Mass Loss from Comet Hale-Bopp'', The Astronomical Journal, Volume 117, Issue 2, pp. 1056-1062

★ ''Cometary Rotation: an Overview'', Earth, Moon, and Planets, v. 79, Issue 1/3, p. 35-53

★ ''Large Kuiper Belt Objects: The Mauna Kea 8K CCD Survey'', The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Issue 5, pp. 2125-2135

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★ Curriculum vitae

★ Video Interview