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Timothy Spahr
NEO Sciences LLP CEO and Shoemaker NEO Selection Committee Chair
Tim Spahr is the CEO of NEO Sciences LLP and former director of the Minor Planet Center in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is also the coordinator of the Planetary Society's Shoemaker NEO Grant program.
Latest Planetary Radio Appearances
One of the Planetary Society’s 2018 Shoemaker Near-Earth Object grants has gone to astronomers searching the sky from a mountaintop in the North African nation of Morocco.
Asteroid Day, June 30th, marks the anniversary of the great Tunguska impact that leveled a Siberian forest. It reminds us that a Near Earth Object can destroy a city or even a civilization. Former Minor Planet Center Director Tim Spahr reviews our efforts to find and understand these bodies.
There’s a place to go when you find a space rock headed our way, or headed any which way. Tim Spahr directs the Minor Planet Center, the global clearinghouse for all information about asteroids, comets and other relatively small bodies like moons.