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Friday, 04 September 2009 14:55 |
 Carnegie Fellow Nick Moskovitz joined DTM on 1 September, following the completion of his Ph.D. in astronomy at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii. Moskovitz’s research focuses on studies of small bodies in the solar system, particularly, the relationship between asteroids in the Main Belt and meteorites here on Earth, and how these two populations provide information about the earliest stages of planet formation, some 4.5 billion years ago. His work at DTM will focus on V-type asteroids—objects that are thought to represent the basaltic crusts of differentiated parent bodies. Primarily, he will be using visible and infrared spectroscopy and visible-wavelength photometry to constrain physical properties of these objects, such as surface mineralogy and rotation rate. This work will provide constraints on the number and diversity of differentiated parent bodies that formed in the early Solar System and how these objects have evolved since their formation.
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