Zdenek Sekanina
Zdeněk Sekanina (born 12 June 1936) is a Czech-American astronomer and scientist.
In 1959, Sekanina studied astronomy at
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he emigrated to the United States. Since 1980, he has been working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
.
His main areas of professional study are
Halley's comet,[2] the Tunguska event,[3] as well as the break-up and impact of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 on Jupiter.[4]
He was involved in the data evaluation of the Giotto, Stardust, and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory missions.
The asteroid
1913 Sekanina
was named after him.
References
- ^ "JPL Science: Zdenek Sekanina". science.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
- S2CID 123170893.
- ^ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP TUNGUSKA 96 July 14-17, 1996
- ^ PERIODIC COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9 (1993e)
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