Daniel J. Scheeres
American aerospace engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Jay Scheeres is an American aerospace engineer. He is the A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In honor of his "pioneering work into the investigation of the dynamics of orbits close to small, irregularly shaped minor planets," Asteroid (8887) 1994LK1 was renamed (8887) Scheeres in 1999.
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Academic background | |
Education | BS, Letters and Engineering, 1985, Calvin College BSE, Aerospace Engineering, 1987, MSE, 1988, PhD, 1992, University of Michigan |
Thesis | On symmetric central configurations with application to satellite motion about rings. (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | Nguyễn Xuân Vinh |
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Institutions | University of Colorado, Boulder Iowa State University University of Michigan |
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