Heidi B. Hammel (born on March 14, 1960) is a Senior Research Scientist and Co-Director of Research at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Space Science Institute (SSI in Boulder, Colorado, is a Nonprofit, public benefit corporation dedicated to research and education in Planetary Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States
In 1994, she led the team that investigated Jupiter's visible-wavelength response to the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 using the Hubble Space Telescope. Shoemaker-Levy redirects here For other Shoemaker-Levy comets see List of periodic comets. The Hubble Space Telescope ( HST; also known colloquially as "the Hubble" or just "Hubble" is a space telescope that was carried into Her latest research involves the imaging of Neptune and Uranus with the Hubble Space Telescope. Neptune ( English|AmE] ] is the eighth and farthest Planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Heidi Hammel has been awarded prizes both for her research (including the 1996 Harold C. Urey Prize of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences) and for her public outreach (such as the Exploratorium's 1998 Public Understanding of Science Award). The Harold C Urey Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The American Astronomical Society (AAS sometimes pronounced "double-A-S" is a US society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals The Exploratorium is a public science Museum, located in the Marina District at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco California
The asteroid 3530 Hammel was named in her honour. 3530 Hammel is an asteroid named for Dr Heidi B Hammel, then a principal research scientist in the Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences of the Massachusetts
Awards
- Klumpke-Roberts Award (1995)
- Harold C. Urey Prize (1996)
- Carl Sagan Medal (2002)
References
- Bortz, Fred (2005), Beyond Jupiter: The Story Of Planetary Astronomer Heidi Hammel, Franklin Watts, ISBN 0531167755
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The Klumpke-Roberts Award was established from a bequest by Astronomer Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts and recognizes outstanding contributions to the public understanding The Harold C Urey Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science was established by the Division for Planetary Sciences to recognize and honor outstanding communicationDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic