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Carolyn Porco

1953 - Today

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Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn. She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon, Enceladus. She has co-authored more than 110 scientific papers on subjects ranging from the spectroscopy of Uranus and Neptune, the interstellar medium, the photometry of planetary rings, satellite/ring interactions, computer simulations of planetary rings, the thermal balance of Triton's polar caps, heat flow in the interior of Jupiter, and a suite of results on the atmosphere, satellites, and rings of Saturn from the Cassini imaging experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carolyn Porco is the 471st most popular astronomer (down from 455th in 2019), the 7,165th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,076th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carolyn Porco ranks 471 out of 644. Before her are Milorad B. Protić, Bohdan Paczyński, Audouin Dollfus, William Wilson Morgan, Hugo Gyldén, and Hiroki Kosai. After her are Elia Millosevich, Minoru Honda, Pierre Puiseux, Edward Pigott, Lyudmila Karachkina, and Dilhan Eryurt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Carolyn Porco ranks 314. Before her are Mokhtar Dahari, Pertti Karppinen, Jan Kjærstad, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Thomas Ligotti, and David Thornton. After her are Albert Rust, Józef Młynarczyk, Colleen Camp, Eiji Ueda, Tom DiCillo, and Nancy Huston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carolyn Porco ranks 7,167 out of 20,380. Before her are John Berry (1917), Charles Wallace Richmond (1868), Isabela Moner (2001), Sam Childers (1963), Ken Starr (1946), and Evan Peters (1987). After her are Ralph Towner (1940), Mike Larrabee (1933), William Bradford (1755), Peter Norton (1943), Harrison Young (1930), and Renée Fleming (1959).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Carolyn Porco ranks 90. Before her are Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816), Schelte J. Bus (1956), Paul W. Merrill (1887), Frank Schlesinger (1871), Joel Stebbins (1878), and William Wilson Morgan (1906). After her are David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Adam Riess (1969), Edward S. Holden (1846), Mary Watson Whitney (1847), Cleveland Abbe (1838), and Forest Ray Moulton (1872).

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