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Scott S. Sheppard
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American astronomer
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Scott S. Sheppard is a male American astronomer and researcher. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and has been educated at the University of Hawaiʻi System and Oberlin College. His professional field is astronomy, and he is employed by the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Sheppard is a member of the International Astronomical Union. He resides in the United States, where he holds citizenship. He speaks English.
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 67,599x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,803x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,859x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,940x
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Encyclopedic overview
Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System.
He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, and received his bachelor in physics with honors in 1998. Starting as a graduate student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, he was credited with the discovery of many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He has also discovered the first known trailing Neptune trojan, 2008 LC18, the first named leading Neptune trojan, 385571 Otrera, and the first high inclination Neptune trojan, 2005 TN53. These discoveries showed that the Neptune trojan objects are mostly on highly inclined orbits and thus likely captured small bodies from elsewhere in the Solar System.
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