Tom Statler

Tom Statler is a prominent planetary scientist and the lead scientist for small bodies at NASA. He plays a crucial role in studying asteroids and comets, including their composition and behavior within our solar system. Statler's expertise is particularly relevant in the context of NASA's missions aimed at understanding these celestial objects, contributing to our knowledge of their potential impacts on Earth and their origins in the cosmos. He was recently in the news due to his participation in a NASA event discussing the comet 3I/ATLAS, which was discovered by the ATLAS observatory.