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.
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Dominican Republic:
Tom Statler expressed excitement about the potential insights the comet 3I/ATLAS could provide about the early solar system.
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Tom Statler, lead NASA scientist for solar system small bodies, estimated the size of the comet’s nucleus.
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Tom Statler is the senior scientist for small bodies of the solar system.
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