I'm a graduate of the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona. I'm currently employed as an assistant professor at Purdue University studying planetary dynamics.
Minton, D.A. and Malhotra, R. (2011) Secular resonance sweeping of the Main Asteroid Belt during planet migration. ApJ, 732:53 Paper Preprint
Minton, D.A. and Malhotra, R. (2010) Dynamical erosion of the asteroid belt and implications for large impacts in the inner solar system. Icarus, 207:744--757 Paper Preprint
Minton, D.A. and Malhotra, R. (2009) A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature, 457:1109-1111 Paper Preprint
Malhotra, R. and Minton, D.A. (2008) Prospects for the Habitability of OGLE-2006-BLG-109L. ApJ, 683:L67-L70 Paper; Preprint
Minton, D.A. (2008) The topographic limits of gravitationally bound, rotating sand piles. Icarus, 195:698--704. Paper
Minton, D.A. and Malhotra, R. (2007) Assessing the massive young Sun hypothesis to solve the warm young Earth puzzle, ApJ, 660:1700-1706. Paper; Preprint.
2009 - Galileo Circle Scholarship
2009 - Department of Planetary Sciences Outstanding Scholar Award
2008-2009 - NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
2008 - Gerard P. Kuiper Award
2007 - Galileo Circle Scholarship
2006 - Edward and Jill Bessey Scholarship in Astrobiology
2003-2005 - Aerospace Research Scholarship
2002-2003 - National Science Foundation Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship
2002-2003 - John Estes Conway Endowed Scholarship
2002-2003 - North Carolina State University Academic Enhancement Scholarship
Life and Planets Astrobiology Center (LAPLACE)
Payload Interoperability Testbed (PIT) for the
Phoenix Mars Lander
Control of Shock-Induced Incipient Separation in a Mach 4 Flow Using Magnetohydrodynamics
NASA Langley/NCSU Mars Tumbleweed
NASA Langley Research Summer Scholars