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Current Projects:
Observations of asteroids and Saturn's rings
Teacher education (K-8)
Current LPL PhD students:
Andy Rivkin
Current LPL postdocs:
Ellen Howell
Classes taught:
NATS 102 The Universe and Humanity: Origin and Destiny
PtyS 597tx Teacher Inservice
Selected Memberships/Committee Positions:
Member: AAS/DPS, AGU, Meteoritical Society, IAU, National Science Teachers' Association
Member, NASA OSS Educational Committee
Spacecraft involvement:
Infrared Space Observatory-- IR support scientist
Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF)--Team member, Visual-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)-- Asteroid Advisory Group
Recent references:
Visible and near-infrared spectral observations of 4179 Toutatis. E.S. Howell, D.T. Britt, J.F. Bell, R.P. Binzel, and L.A. Lebofsky (1995) Icarus, in press.
Star-based calibration in the far infrared with application to IRAS Band 4. D.J. Kirby, G.H. Rieke, and L.A. Lebofsky (1995) Astron. J., in press.
CVF Spectroscopy of Pluto: Correlation of composition with albedo. R.L. Marcialis and L.A. Lebofsky (1991) Icarus 89, pp. 255-263
Project ARTIST: Integrating astronomy and planetary sciences into the elementary and middle school curriculum. L.A. Lebofsky and N.R. Lebofsky (1994) LPSC XXV, pp. 783-784.
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