I'm a graduate student in the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona. I'm currently studying solar system dynamics.
Minton, D.A. and Malhotra, R. (2009) A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature, 457:1109-1111 Paper
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