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Scott S. Sheppard

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Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System. He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, and received his bachelor in physics with honors in 1998. Starting as a graduate student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, he was credited with the discovery of many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He has also discovered the first known trailing Neptune trojan, 2008 LC18, the first named leading Neptune trojan, 385571 Otrera, and the first high inclination Neptune trojan, 2005 TN53. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Scott S. Sheppard is the 558th most popular astronomer (down from 554th in 2019), the 9,849th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,490th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 558 out of 644. Before him are Thomas Brisbane, Madge Adam, Irwin I. Shapiro, Seiji Ueda, Tomimaru Okuni, and Takao Kobayashi. After him are Kazimierz Kordylewski, John Dobson, Lawrence H. Aller, Carlos Torres, Kazuro Watanabe, and Maura Tombelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 185. Before him are Joe Bonamassa, Saša Ilić, Ivan Basso, Vince Carter, Daniel Sanabria, and Tobias Sammet. After him are Sin Cara, Cristiano Zanetti, Leo Franco, Zdeňka Podkapová, Dar Salim, and Paul Kalkbrenner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 9,851 out of 20,380. Before him are Helen Ferguson (1901), Ron Leibman (1937), Eric Esch (1966), Hubert Stevens (1890), Johnny Burnette (1934), and Frank Greer (1879). After him are Pepper Adams (1930), Bob Mathias (1930), Joe Jonas (1989), Paul Pilgrim (1883), Sin Cara (1977), and Adam McKay (1968).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 115. Before him are John Huchra (1948), John N. Bahcall (1934), Adelaide Ames (1900), Roy A. Tucker (1951), Charles W. Juels (1944), and Irwin I. Shapiro (1929). After him are Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Thomas Bopp (1949), John August Anderson (1876), David Rittenhouse (1732), Peter Goldreich (1939), and Dorrit Hoffleit (1907).

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