David
Polishook
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As a planetary scientist
and astronomer, I use photometric and spectral observations in the visible
and IR wavelength range, to study the physical nature of asteroids and their
evolution. I am an AXA post-doctoral fellow at the Department of
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT working in the
group of Prof. Richard P. Binzel. I received my
PhD from the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences at Tel-Aviv University
under
the guidance of Prof. Dina Prialnik and Dr.
Noah Brosch. Studies and
projects: -
Physical examination of (175706) 1996 FG3, the target of
the Marco-Polo-R space mission. -
Studying disintegration of asteroids due to rotational fission
into separated
pairs and binary
asteroids. -
Detecting and studying asteroids and their lightcurves in an industrial
scale using data from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) survey
(collaborating with the experimental astrophysics group at the Weizmann
Institute of Science). -
I have also participated in other observing projects: A survey
for supernova and other transients - PTF; a survey for gravitational microlensing
events to detect exoplanets - μFun; observations of 9P/Temple 1 during the Deep Impact mission; optical lightcurves of gamma-ray bursts; observations and analysis of meteor showers. |
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Dept. of Earth,
Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), MIT |
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Email Older emails: |
davidpol [at]
mit.edu david [at] wise.tau.ac.il, david.polishook [at]
weizmann.ac.il |
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Mail |
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences (EAPS), room 54-416 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 |
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Telephone |
+1-617-324-8132 |
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