Bonnie Buratti

Dr. Bonnie J. Buratti is a planetary astronomer in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she leads the Comets, Asteroids, and Satellites Group. Her research involves the composition and physical properties of planetary surfaces,[1] and volatile transport in the outer solar system.[2]

Education

Buratti received an M.S. in Earth and Planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and PhD in Astronomy and Space Sciences from Cornell University.

Career

The missions with which Dr. Buratti has been involved include the Voyager Program, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft and the New Horizons space probe.[3] For her work with the Cassini program she was awarded the NASA exceptional achievement medal in 2006. Dr. Buratti also does educational outreach at the college and grade school level.[4] Currently Dr. Buratti is on the science team of the New Horizons project which will explore Pluto and its moons. In 2014 she was elected Chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.[5] The asteroid 90502 is named after Dr. Buratti.[6] In November 2015 Dr. Buratti was named the NASA Project Scientist for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.[7] She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.[8]

Bibliography

Books

  1. Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System ISBN 9781316591444

References

  1. ↑ "Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Bonnie Buratti". JPL.Gov. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Buratti, Bonnie (May 2015). "Photometry of Pluto 2008--2014: Evidence of Ongoing Seasonal Volatile Transport and Activity". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 804 (1): L6. Bibcode:2015ApJ...804L...6B. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/804/1/L6.
  3. ↑ Buratti, J., Bonnie (1 April 2005). "Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Observations of Iapetus: Detection of CO2". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 622 (2). Bibcode:2005ApJ...622L.149B. doi:10.1086/429800. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Teachers Touch The Sky". jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "DPS Officers". Division of Planetary Sciences. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". JPL. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Rosetta Team Members". JPL. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Fellows Alphabetic List". American Geophysical Union.
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