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Scott S. Sheppard

1977 - Today

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Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System. He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, and received his bachelor in physics with honors in 1998. Starting as a graduate student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, he was credited with the discovery of many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scott S. Sheppard has received more than 82,854 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Scott S. Sheppard is the 554th most popular astronomer (down from 534th in 2019), the 10,489th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,896th in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 554 out of 644. Before him are Anne Sewell Young, Ewine van Dishoeck, Thomas Brisbane, Avi Loeb, David Rittenhouse, and Pavel Shternberg. After him are Thomas Romney Robinson, Richard A. Proctor, Mary Ward, Bruce C. Murray, John August Anderson, and Irwin I. Shapiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 215. Before him are Paul Pierce, Liza Weil, Hayko, Raphaël Wicky, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, and Alex Manninger. After him are Javier Botet, Steve Howey, Peja Stojaković, Jason Earles, Vitor Belfort, and Justin Hartley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 10,489 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Jenkins (1958), David Lindley (1944), Emma P. Carr (1880), Kelly Reichardt (1964), Ginni Rometty (1957), and Don Keefer (1916). After him are Dennis Muren (1946), Dorothy Thompson (1893), Jerry Herman (1931), Joe Arpaio (1932), Kerr Smith (1972), and T. J. Thyne (1975).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Scott S. Sheppard ranks 109. Before him are Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Anne Sewell Young (1871), and David Rittenhouse (1732). After him are Bruce C. Murray (1931), John August Anderson (1876), Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), Thomas Bopp (1949), Robert Herman (1914), and David L. Rabinowitz (1960).

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