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David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
. He has built CCD
Charge-coupled device

A charge-coupled device is an analog signal shift register that enables the transportation of analog signals through successive stages , controlled by a clock signal....
 cameras and software for the detection of near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects, and his research has helped reduce the assumed number of near-Earth asteroids by half, from 1,000-2,000 to 500-1,000 He has also assisted in the detection of distant solar system objects, supernova
Supernova

A supernova is a Astronomy#Stellar astronomy explosion. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months....
e, and quasar
Quasar

A Quasi-stellar radio source is a powerfully energetic and distant active galactic nucleus. Quasars were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio frequency and visible spectrum, that were point-like, similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxy....
s, thereby helping to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system
Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those Astronomical object bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 known Natural satellite, and billions of Small Solar System body....
 and the dark energy
Dark energy

In physical cosmology & astronomy dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the Hubble's law....
 driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Collaborating with Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown

Michael E. Brown has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology since 2003. He was previously an associate professor at Caltech from 2002-2003 and an assistant professor at Caltech from 1997?2002....
 and Chad Trujillo
Chad Trujillo

Chadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo , is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris .Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects , which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in....
 of the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team
Quasar Equatorial Survey Team

The Quasar Equatorial Survey Team is a joint venture between Yale University, Indiana University, and Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia to photographically survey the sky....
, he has participated in the discovery of several TNO
TNO

TNO can stand for:* Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek * Trans-Neptunian object* Trans-National Organization...
s, among them:






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David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University
Yale University

Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League....
. He has built CCD
Charge-coupled device

A charge-coupled device is an analog signal shift register that enables the transportation of analog signals through successive stages , controlled by a clock signal....
 cameras and software for the detection of near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects, and his research has helped reduce the assumed number of near-Earth asteroids by half, from 1,000-2,000 to 500-1,000 He has also assisted in the detection of distant solar system objects, supernova
Supernova

A supernova is a Astronomy#Stellar astronomy explosion. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months....
e, and quasar
Quasar

A Quasi-stellar radio source is a powerfully energetic and distant active galactic nucleus. Quasars were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio frequency and visible spectrum, that were point-like, similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxy....
s, thereby helping to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system
Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those Astronomical object bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 known Natural satellite, and billions of Small Solar System body....
 and the dark energy
Dark energy

In physical cosmology & astronomy dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the Hubble's law....
 driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Collaborating with Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown

Michael E. Brown has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology since 2003. He was previously an associate professor at Caltech from 2002-2003 and an assistant professor at Caltech from 1997?2002....
 and Chad Trujillo
Chad Trujillo

Chadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo , is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris .Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects , which is the outer area of the solar system that he specialized in....
 of the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team
Quasar Equatorial Survey Team

The Quasar Equatorial Survey Team is a joint venture between Yale University, Indiana University, and Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia to photographically survey the sky....
, he has participated in the discovery of several TNO
TNO

TNO can stand for:* Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek * Trans-Neptunian object* Trans-National Organization...
s, among them:
  • 90377 Sedna
    90377 Sedna

    90377 Sedna is a trans-Neptunian object and a likely dwarf planet, discovered by Michael E. Brown , Chad Trujillo and David L. Rabinowitz on November 14, 2003....
     - possibly the first known inner Oort cloud
    Oort cloud

    The Oort cloud is a hypothetical spherical cloud of comets which may lie roughly 50 000 astronomical unit, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun....
     object.
  • 90482 Orcus
    90482 Orcus

    90482 Orcus is a Kuiper Belt object and a likely dwarf planet that was discovered by Michael E. Brown of California Institute of Technology, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory, and David L....
  • Eris
    Eris (dwarf planet)

    'Eris' , Minor planet names '136199 Eris', is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest body known to orbit the Sun directly....
     - a dwarf planet
    Dwarf planet

    A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not Clearing the neighbourhood of planetesimals and is not a natural satellite....
     larger than Pluto
    Pluto

    Pluto , Minor planet names Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun....
    .*
although he would not get credit for Haumea.

Together with Tom Gehrels
Tom Gehrels

Tom Gehrels is an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University_Of_Arizona, Tucson.Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 50s, and wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets in the 60s, each resulting in an extended sequence of papers in the Astronomical_Jour...
 of the University of Arizona
University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is a land-grant and Space grant colleges Public university institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States....
 and his Spacewatch
Spacewatch

Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets....
 Team, Rabinowitz discovered or co-discovered other astronomical object
Astronomical object

s are significant entity, associations or structures which current science has confirmed to exist in outer space. This does not necessarily mean that more current science will not disprove their existence....
s including:
  • 5145 Pholus
    5145 Pholus

    5145 Pholus is a Centaur of the solar system running in an eccentric orbit, with a perihelion less than Saturn and aphelion greater than Neptune ....
  • 1991 BA