Dr. Amanda Sickafoose
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in South Africa
Targets of Interest: Asteroids, Charon, Dwarf Planets, Interplanetary Dust, Kuiper Belt, Moon, Planetary Rings, Pluto, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Exoplanets
Disciplines/Techniques: Astrometry, Atmospheres, Ground-Based Observing, Numerical Modeling, Photometry, Space-Based Observing, Spectroscopy
Missions: DART
Instruments: High-Speed Imaging Cameras, Dust Counters, Imaging Spectrometers, Spectrometers
Facilities: Saao, Lowell Observatory, Cerro Tololo, Gemini, IRTF, Kitt Peak, SOFIA
Active areas of research include characterizing distant Solar System bodies through stellar occultations (e.g. monitoring Pluto’s and Triton's evolving atmospheres and placing size and atmospheric constraints on trans-Neptunian objects, studying Centaur environments (rings, jets, and comae), and observing exoplanet transits. Other areas of interest include dusty plasmas, with applications to near-surface planetary environments such as the Moon and asteroids, and building instruments for ground-based telescopes.
Active Projects
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Project Team
External Partners
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
