Robin M. Canup
NOV 20, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031097
On this date in 1968, Robin M. Canup, one of the leading researchers on the formation of Earth and the Moon, was born. Since 1998 she has worked at the Southwest Research Institute and has been a primary investigator in a number of NASA programs focused on the formations of planets and solar systems. Because of her contributions to the currently accepted theory that the Moon was formed due to the collision of a Mars-sized body with Earth, she was awarded the 2003 Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science.
Date in History: 20 November 1968
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