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David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and researcher at Yale University.
CareerEdit
David Rabinowitz has built CCD cameras and software for the detection of near-Earth and Kuiper belt objects,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and his research has helped reduce the assumed number of near-Earth asteroids larger than 1 km by half, from 1,000–2,000 to 500–1,000.<ref name="NASA-population-count" /> He has also assisted in the detection of distant solar system objects, supernovae, and quasars, thereby helping to understand the origin and evolution of the Solar System and the dark energy driving the accelerated expansion of the universe.
Collaborating with Michael Brown and Chad Trujillo of the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team, he has participated in the discovery of several possible dwarf planets such as 90377 Sedna (possibly the first known inner Oort cloud object), 90482 Orcus,<ref name="Orcus-BBC" /> Eris (more massive than Pluto<ref name="Brown-2007" />), Template:Dp,<ref name="Brown-2005" /> and Template:Dp,<ref name="Makemake-memphisgeology" /> though no-one would get credit for Haumea.
Together with Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona and his Spacewatch team, Rabinowitz discovered or co-discovered other astronomical objects including 5145 Pholus<ref name="daviddarling" /> – a Centaur, credited by the MPC to Spacewatch<ref name="MPC-Pholus" />– and the unnumbered Apollo near-Earth object 1991 BA, which remains uncredited.<ref name="MPC-1991 BA" />
Awards and honorsEdit
The minor planet 5040 Rabinowitz, a Phocaea asteroid discovered by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory in 1972, was named in his honor and for his work at Spacewatch.<ref name="springer" />
List of discovered minor planetsEdit
David Rabinowitz is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 34 minor planets during 1989–2010.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
| 90377 Sedna | 14 November 2003 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| 90482 Orcus | February 17, 2004 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mpl | July 26, 2003 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mpl | October 3, 2004 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| 136199 Eris | October 21, 2003 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| 136472 Makemake | March 31, 2005 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mpl | August 7, 2004 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | May 10, 2007 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| 225088 Gonggong | July 17, 2007 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| 229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà | July 17, 2007 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | August 25, 2008 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 9, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mpl | March 7, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | December 19, 2009 | Template:LoMP |
| Template:Mp | December 16, 2009 | Template:LoMP |
| Template:Mp | September 9, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mpl | December 17, 2009 | Template:LoMP |
| Template:Mpl | November 11, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 9, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 13, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 17, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 18, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 19, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | March 19, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | April 14, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | May 12, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | August 14, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | November 3, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | October 27, 1989 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | August 14, 2010 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | September 24, 2008 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | September 11, 2007 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | September 26, 2008 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Template:Mp | September 24, 2008 | Template:LoMP Template:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label |
| Co-discovery made with: Template:Note label M. E. Brown Template:Note label C. Trujillo Template:Note label M. E. Schwamb Template:Note label S. Tourtellotte Template:Note label J. V. Scotti | ||
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1992AD is with a comet-like orbit of 92.26 years without a tail, which orbits between Saturn and Neptune. It was discovered by Rabinowitz in 1992 and was officially named Pholus. Another body that he discovered in 1993 was named Nessus with an orbit of 123.2 years. This one orbits between Saturn and Pluto.<ref>Life After Grief: An Astrological Guide to Dealing with Loss, by Darrelyn Gunzburg, 2004</ref>