Dr. Stephen Schwartz
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in FL
Targets of Interest: Asteroids, Comets, Deimos, Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Kuiper Belt, Phobos, Planetary rings, Trans-Neptunian objects
Disciplines/Techniques: Celestial Mechanics, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Impacts, Numerical modeling, Photometry
Missions: Hayabusa2 (Japan), OSIRIS-Rex
Mission Roles: Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team
Dr. Steve Schwartz studies asteroid and cometary surface geophysics using spacecraft remote sensing data and numerical simulation. He is interested in applying numerical models of granular dynamics at different energy scales to study processes in the Solar System, as well as to spacecraft operations.
