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  1. Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System. [1] [2] [3] He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.

  2. Scott Sheppard studies the dynamical and physical properties of small bodies in our Solar System, such as asteroids, comets, moons and trans-Neptunian objects (bodies that orbit beyond Neptune).

  3. Feb 23, 2024 · “The three newly discovered moons are the faintest ever found around these two ice giant planets using ground-based telescopes,” explained Carnegie astronomer Scott S. Sheppard. “It took special image processing to reveal such faint objects.”

  4. The Solar System has some new lunar membersthe first new moon of Uranus discovered in more than 20 years, and likely the smallest, as well as two new moons of Neptune, one of which...

  5. Oct 2, 2018 · Washington, DC— Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues—Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen—are once again redefining our Solar System’s edge.

  6. A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant Solar System objects as part of the hunt for a possible...

  7. To understand solar system evolution in general and how ours came to be, Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism astronomer Scott Sheppard studies the dynamical and physical properties of...