Hal A. Weaver

Hal A. Weaver
Hal Weaver discusses 486958 Arrokoth
Born
Harold Anthony Weaver

1956 (age 67–68)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDuke University
Johns Hopkins University
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy

Harold Anthony "Hal" Weaver, Jr. (born 1953) is an American astronomer, known for his research into the composition of solar system bodies including comets and Kuiper belt objects.

Weaver attended Duke University as an undergraduate, and obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins, where he researched the spectra of comets using data from the International Ultraviolet Explorer space telescope.[1]

Since 2002 Weaver has worked at the Applied Physics Laboratory. He is co-investigator on the Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer on board the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko,[2] In the 1990s and 2000s he worked on the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer space telescope, conducted research into comets using the Hubble Space Telescope,[3] and co-led the Pluto Companion Search Team that in 2005 discovered the second and third moons of Pluto (Nix and Hydra) using the Hubble Space Telescope.[3]

His involvement in the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond meant that Weaver was also co-discoverer of Kerberos and Styx in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Weaver has frequently appeared with New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern at press briefings announcing the mission's findings following the fly-bys of Pluto and 486958 Arrokoth, and has made media appearances to discuss the mission.[4]

The Mars-crossing asteroid 5720 Halweaver is named after him.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Weaver, Harold A. (1981). Ultraviolet spectra of comets observed with the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite observatory (PhD). Johns Hopkins University. Bibcode:1981PhDT........53W. OCLC 10543591.
  2. ^ a b "Harold A. Weaver, Jr". Johns Hopkins University. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Project Scientist". NASA. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Pluto Amazes!". Planetary Radio. Planetary Society. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  1. "NASA Reveals Pluto Close-Up Images from New Horizons". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  2. "Harold, Weaver". Science Research Portal. Archived from the original on August 21, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  3. "Harold A Weaver's Publons profile". Publons.com. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  4. "Library of Congress". Id.loc.gov. Retrieved August 21, 2019.

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