Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (born in 1929) has Co-overdraft the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and is the wife of Eugene Mr. Shoemaker.

Shoemaker holds the record of the greatest number of Comet S discovered by a person. She began her career in astronomy in 1980 by seeking objects géocroiseurs (Astéroïde S and Comet S) with the Caltech and the Observatoire of the Mount Palomar.

In the Eighties and Nineties, Shoemaker used films taken with the telescope with large field of the Palomar Mount, combined in a Stéréoscope, to find objects which moved compared to the fixed bottom of stars.

In 2002, Shoemaker had discovered 32 comets and more than 800 asteroids. She accepted a doctorate on a purely honorary basis of the Northern Arizona University located at Flagstaff in the Arizona and the medal for Exceptional Scientific Réussite of NASA in 1996. Itself and her husband accepted the Médaille James Craig Watson in 1998.

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External bond

  • Page of the USGS on Carolyn Shoemaker (document used like source)

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