Karen J. Meech is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in the University of Hawaii. Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena The Institute for Astronomy (IfA is a research unit within the University of Hawaii system led by Dr The University of Hawaii, formally the University of Hawaii System and popularly known as UH, is a public co-educational college and university system that confers Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their relation to the early solar system. Planetary science, also known as planetology and closely related to planetary astronomy, is the Science of Planets or Planetary systems A comet is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and when close enough to the Sun exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere or a tail — The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity. She is also very active in professional-amateur collaboration and science teacher education and is a co-founder of the Towards Planetary Systems (TOPS) program that helps educate science teachers in the Pacific islands. Teacher education refers to the policies and procedures designed to equip Teachers with the Knowledge, Attitudes Behaviours and Skills The Pacific Ocean contains an estimated 20000 to 30000 Islands (the exact number has yet to be precisely determined She received her Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences in 1987 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has received several awards in her career, including the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1988 and the American Astronomical Society's H. C. Urey Prize in 1994. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS to a woman resident of North America who is within five years of receipt The American Astronomical Society (AAS sometimes pronounced "double-A-S" is a US society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals The Harold C Urey Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. She is currently a co-investigator on the Deep Impact mission and is a council member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Deep Impact is an ongoing NASA Space probe launched on 12 January 2005 that was designed to study the composition of the interior of the Comet Since its founding in 1911 the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO has coordinated collected evaluated analyzed published and archived Variable star
Asteroid 4367 Meech, discovered by Schelte J. Bus on March 2, 1981, is named in her honor. Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but 4367 Meech (1981 EE43 is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 02, 1981 by S Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981
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