Tuesday, October 14, 2008

AAS Planetary Science Award

JPL's Jon Giorgini Honored With Masursky Award - SpaceRef - Jon developed and implemented the on-line Horizons system that is used by the international scientific community to generate accurate ephemeris information for the 450,000 currently known objects in the solar system.

As described in the press release, he has a lot of other accomplishments, too.