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Planetary Rings: Dwarf Planet Edition
In the early morning hours of January 21, 2017, many professional and amateur astronomers were pointing their telescopes to a star in the constellation Boötes (The Herdsman) with the unwieldy name of URAT1 533-182543, a typical star that had not inspired any special interest up until that very moment. So what happened on that day…
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UCF Scientists Witness Solar Eclipse Across the USA
This past summer, for the first time since 1918, people in the United States were able to experience a total solar eclipse that crossed the mainland from coast to coast. No total solar eclipse had even touched the continental United States since 1979, and we will have to wait until April 2024 for the next…
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UCF Prepares for a Solar Eclipse
UCF will be hosting a solar eclipse viewing event on August 21. Check out the details on our website and on UCF Today.
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UCF Participates in Asteroid Day
June 30th is Asteroid Day, and our own Prof. Humberto Campins will be at the Kennedy Space Center to give a public talk about those rocks in the sky. Check out the story on UCF Today.
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FSI Planetary Scientist Studying ‘Bizarro’ Comet
Check out the story on UCF Today about FSI Planetary Scientist Dr. Gal Sarid and a recent study of an unusual comet in the outer Solar System.
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Dr. Addie Dove Wins NASA Early Career Award
Dr. Addie Dove, an assistant professor in our group, has won this year’s Susan Mahan Niebur Early Career Award from NASA! Congratulations! The award will be formally presented at this summer’s Exploration Science Forum. Read more about the award and about Prof. Dove’s accomplishments at UCF Today.
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Researchers with UCF Connections Honored with Asteroid Names
An international collection of scientists who study asteroids, comets, and meteors met this week at the (appropriately named) Asteroids Comets Meteors 2017 conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is the most important such conference in the world for these researchers. A tradition at this approximately-triennial conference (first held in 1983) is to honor some of the…
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Dr. Addie Dove Profiled by the Center for Success of Women Faculty
A profile of one of our own professors, Dr. Addie Dove, is included in the Center for Success of Women Faculty’s celebration of Women’s History Month! Give it a read!
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Using asteroids to protect astronauts in deep space
A recent paper published by UCF researchers Leos Pohl and Prof. Dan Britt discussing how asteroid clays could work better than aluminum at protecting astronauts in deep space from radiation has been profiled in a recent article in New Scientist.
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