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Encyclopedia > Robert S. McMillan

Robert S. McMillan is an astronomer at the University of Arizona, and heads the Spacewatch project, which studies minor planets. He has made various discoveries, including notably 20000 Varuna.


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PtyS/LPL Faculty: Dr. Robert S. McMillan (304 words)
McMillan is in charge of the Spacewatch survey of the solar system for near-Earth asteroids, main-belt asteroids, Centaurs, comets, and Trans-Neptunian objects.
McMillan's career has included studies of variable stars, statistics of stellar populations, interstellar dust, interstellar magnetic fields, planetary atmospheres, Doppler shift spectroscopy of stars, astronomical instrumentation, and surveys of asteroids.
McMillan became the Principal Investigator of Spacewatch in mid-1997.
PtyS/LPL Faculty: Dr. Robert S. McMillan (947 words)
McMillan, R. Bressi, A. Descour, T. Gehrels, J. Larsen, J.
McMillan, R. "Spacewatch Discovery and Study of Accessible Asteroids." Abstract of paper presented at the Space Resources Utilization Roundtable at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO: LPI Contrib.
McMillan, R. Bressi, A. Descour, T. Gehrels, A. Gleason, R. Jedicke, J. Montani, M. Perry, M. Read, J. Scotti, A. Tubbiolo.
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