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Experts on Cerro Tololo

Name	Missions & Mission Experience	Targets	Techniques	Major Facilities & Instrument Development
Susan Benecchi	HST, New Horizons	Charon, Comets, Dwarf planets, Kuiper Belt, Pluto, Trans-Neptunian objects	Astrometry, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Photometry, Space-based observing	Cerro Tololo, Gemini, IRTF, Kitt Peak
Tom McCord	Apollo, Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Dawn, Europa Clipper, Galileo, Mariner 9, Mars Express (ESA), Rosetta ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument PI, Mission science team, Optical design, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Comets, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Iapetus, Icy satellites, Mars, Mercury, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Titan, Vesta	Geochemistry, Geology, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling	Cerro Tololo, IRTF, Kitt Peak, Palomar ** Cameras, FTIR, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Beatrice Mueller		Asteroids, Comets, Trans-Neptunian objects	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Photometry	Cerro Tololo, Kitt Peak
Nalin Samarasinha		Asteroids, Comets, Kuiper Belt	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing	Cerro Tololo, Kitt Peak
Amanda Sickafoose		Asteroids, Charon, Dwarf planets, Interplanetary Dust, Kuiper Belt, Moon, Planetary rings, Pluto, Trans-Neptunian objects	Astrometry, Atmospheres, Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy	Cerro Tololo, Gemini, IRTF, Kitt Peak, SOFIA ** Cameras, Dust counter, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Ed Tedesco	IRAS, ISO (ESA), IUE, MSX, NEOSSat (Canada), Spitzer ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Deputy Mission PI, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Asteroids, Ceres, Dwarf planets, Pluto, Small satellites, Vesta	Astrometry, Ground-based observing, Photometry, Radiometry, Remote sensing, Space-based observing	Cerro Tololo, IRTF, Kitt Peak, Palomar ** Cameras
Faith Vilas	Hayabusa 1 (Japan), Hayabusa2 (Japan), LCROSS, LRO, MESSENGER	Asteroids, Dwarf planets, Mercury, Moon, Small satellites	Ground-based observing, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy	Cerro Tololo, MMT ** Cameras, Spectrometers

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