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Experts on Kitt Peak

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
Jeff Morgenthaler	GALEX, Sounding Rockets	Comets, Earth, Europa, Gas giants, Io, Io torus, Jupiter, Solar particles/Solar wind	Aeronomy, Astrometry, Atmospheres, Calorimetry, Ground-based observing, Photometry, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy	Kitt Peak ** Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers, X-ray 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
Sarah Sonnett	NEOWISE	Asteroids, Comets, Dwarf planets, Trans-Neptunian objects	Astrobiology, Astrometry, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy	Kitt Peak ** Cameras
Mark Sykes	Dawn, HST, IRAS, ISO (ESA), MSX, NEOWISE, Spitzer ** Data archive, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Science operations	Asteroids, Ceres, Charon, Comets, Deimos, Dwarf planets, Interplanetary Dust, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Phobos, Pluto, Small satellites, Vesta	Ground-based observing, Photometry, Radiometry, Remote sensing, Space-based observing	ALMA, IRTF, Kitt Peak, MMT, SMT
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
Kathryn Volk		Asteroids, Comets, Exoplanets, Kuiper Belt, Trans-Neptunian objects	Celestial Mechanics, Ground-based observing	Kitt Peak, LBT
Grace Wolf-Chase	IRAS, Spitzer		Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Spectroscopy	ALMA, Kitt Peak

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