My research focuses on Main Belt asteroids, the denizens of the region of the Solar System between Mars and Jupiter. These objects are the building blocks that remain from the formation of the Solar System, and can be studied to probe the early conditions of the dust disk that created the planets. Since asteroids tend to be small (100 meters - 100 km) they look like points, even in the biggest telescope.

However, as they orbit the Sun they move with respect to the background stars.

Click here for a .mpg movie of an asteroid in motion.


(hopefully I'll be able to make this prettier soon...)




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