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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 259,084 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Carolyn Porco is the 466th most popular astronomer (up from 477th in 2019), the 7,717th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,543rd in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 32

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  • 4.76

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  • 3.53

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Carolyn Porco ranks 466 out of 531Before her are David Todd Wilkinson, William Robert Brooks, Margaret Geller, William de Wiveleslie Abney, David H. Levy, and Pierre Puiseux. After her are Royal Harwood Frost, Edward S. Holden, DeLisle Stewart, Fyodor Bredikhin, Bohdan Paczyński, and Robert Emden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Carolyn Porco ranks 333Before her are Ladislav Jurkemik, Ho Ching, Enzo Trossero, Peter Garrett, Pertti Karppinen, and Ron Clements. After her are Christopher Franke, Matija Ljubek, Rachid Bouchareb, Zigmantas Balčytis, Jürgen Pommerenke, and Patrick Chamoiseau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carolyn Porco ranks 7,717 out of 18,182Before her are Josh Dallas (1978), Louise Erdrich (1954), Charles A. Beard (1874), Gerald Carr (1932), Willard Metcalf (1858), and Mose Allison (1927). After her are Barry Sullivan (1912), Larry Drake (1950), Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914), Michael Anthony (1954), Tony Hillerman (1925), and Ashlyn Gere (1959).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Carolyn Porco ranks 98Before her are Harold D. Babcock (1882), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), Benjamin Banneker (1731), Mary Watson Whitney (1847), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), and Margaret Geller (1947). After her are Royal Harwood Frost (1879), Edward S. Holden (1846), DeLisle Stewart (1870), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), and John N. Bahcall (1934).

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