Dr. Stephen Schwartz
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in Florida
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), Micromega (Hayabusa2, Osiris-Rex)
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.
Active Projects
Predicting and understanding the long process of crater formation and ejecta production in the microgravity environment of Dimorphos and Didymos
NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test Participating Scientist Program
Principal Investigator
Investigating Irregular Vertical Structures at the Edges of Saturn’s A and B Rings
NASA Cassini Data Analysis Program
Institutional PI
External Partners
- SETI Institute
