Dr. Jordan Steckloff
Research Scientist
Currently resides in Michigan
Targets of Interest: Asteroids, Ceres, Charon, Comets, Dwarf Planets, Icy Satellites, Kuiper Belt, Mercury, Moon, Pluto, Small Satellites, Titan, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Vesta
Disciplines/Techniques: Celestial Mechanics, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Numerical Modeling, Thermal Modeling
Missions: Cassini, EPOXI, Stardust-Next
Dr. Jordan Steckloff is currently investigating the water vapor plumes that result from comet impacts into large airless bodies in the inner Solar System, and how this water vapor plume evoves and migrates to the bodies' cold traps. He is also studying the thermodynamic evolution of liquid hydrocarbon pools on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and how these pools interact with Titan's atmosphere to influence Titan's weather. He also studies the dynamical, physical, and structural evolution of cometary bodies in the Solar System, and the evolution of amorphous water ice in comets over the age of the Solar System. He is also interested in the geophysical processes that alter the surface of Pluto and reorient its rotational axis. Recently, Dr. Steckloff has become interested in the dynamical evolution of small, ultra-short period exoplanetary bodies that have been detected by the Kepler spacecraft.
