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Carolyn Porco

1953 - Today

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Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carolyn Porco has received more than 277,105 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Carolyn Porco is the 455th most popular astronomer (up from 466th in 2019), the 7,077th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,702nd in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 280k

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  • 54.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carolyn Porco ranks 455 out of 644. Before her are Horace W. Babcock, Fyodor Bredikhin, Benjamin Banneker, Charles W. Juels, Frank Schlesinger, and Alexandre Schaumasse. After her are Alfred Schmitt, Michael E. Brown, David Todd Wilkinson, Geoffrey Burbidge, Guillermo Haro, and Tsutomu Seki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Carolyn Porco ranks 326. Before her are Roger Allam, Jaromír Nohavica, Dany Laferrière, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, Pat Symonds, and Gérard Janvion. After her are Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Ditmar Jakobs, Ellen S. Baker, Agustí Villaronga, Raúl Ramírez, and Peter Schreyer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carolyn Porco ranks 7,077 out of 20,380. Before her are Martin Dempsey (1952), Harold Becker (1928), Leigh Taylor-Young (1945), José M. Hernández (1962), Paul McCarthy (1945), and Sherrill Milnes (1935). After her are Gavin Newsom (1967), Julius Katchen (1926), Chuck McCann (1934), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), William Gibson (1914), and Maud Wagner (1877).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Carolyn Porco ranks 87. Before her are Brian Schmidt (1967), Henry L. Giclas (1910), Horace W. Babcock (1912), Benjamin Banneker (1731), Charles W. Juels (1944), and Frank Schlesinger (1871). After her are Michael E. Brown (1965), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), Schelte J. Bus (1956), Royal Harwood Frost (1879), and Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898).

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