David Jewitt I am interested in the primitive bodies of the Solar System, especially the comets. In all likelihood, these objects are remnants from the accretional processes by which the major planets grew. My hope is that the properties of the comets will throw light on the nature and evolution of the protoplanetary disk. This connects naturally with the general issue of planet formation, and with the existence of dust disks around young stars.
Whenever anything was told him that he did not understand, or when anything attracted his attention or aroused his curiosity, a spasm passed over his face, his features twitched convulsively, and the whole left side of his body (especially the arm and hand) was affected - Kaspar Hauser, by Anselm Feuerbach, 1832, {translation} Allen and Ticknor, Boston
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David Jewitt
Institute for Astronomy
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