Robin Canup
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(Redirected from
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)Robin M. Canup (born November 20, 1968) is an American astrophysicist. Her main area of research concerns the origins of planets and satellites.Philip R. Christensen.[3]
Biography
She received her B.S. from
University of Colorado at Boulder
.
Canup is known for her research based upon the
giant impact hypothesis, using intensive modeling to simulate how planetary collisions unfold.[4][5][6][7] In 2012, Canup first published a refinement to the giant impact hypothesis, arguing that the Moon and the Earth formed in a series of steps that started with a massive collision of two planetary bodies, each larger than Mars, which then re-collided to form what we now call Earth.[8] After the re-collision, Earth was surrounded by a disk of material, which combined to form the Moon.[9] She has written a book on the origin of the Earth and Moon.[10] Canup has also published research describing a giant impact origin for Pluto and Charon.[11]
Canup is an accomplished ballet dancer and danced the lead role in Coppélia in the Boulder Ballet one week after finishing her dissertation.[12]
Selected works
- Origin of the Earth and Moon. Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter (eds.) (2nd ed.). Tucson : Houston: University of Arizona Press. 2000-11-01. ISBN 978-0-8165-2073-2.)
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: CS1 maint: others (link - National Research Council (various) (2010). Defending Planet Earth:: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies. ISBN 9780309149686. (member of Space Studies board)
- Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter, Nicolas Dauphas et al.: Origin of the Moon. In: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Vol. 89, No 1. Dec. 2023.
References
- ^ University of Boulder Profile, boulder.swri.edu; accessed March 9, 2015.
- ^ "Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science". Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023 2032 | National Academies".
- S2CID 4413525.
- S2CID 28238627.
- ISSN 0019-1035.
- .
- PMID 23076098.
- ^ "NASA Lunar Scientists Develop New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation". NASA Press Release. NASA. 2012-10-30. Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
- ISBN 978-0-8165-2073-2.)
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: CS1 maint: others (link - S2CID 19558835.
- ^ Finn, Ed (2004-10-29). "Robin Canup". Popular Science. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
External links
- NAS Research Briefings: Robin M. Canup - Formation of Planetary Moons on Vimeo from National Academy of Sciences
- Interview with Robin Canup for NOVA series: To the Moon WGBH Educational Foundation, raw footage, 1998
- “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Robin M. Canup, Astrophysicist,” 1998-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC.