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Brett James Gladman (born April 19, 1966) is a Canadian astronomer and a full professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy. ==Career== Gladman is best known for his work in dynamical astronomy in the Solar System. He has studied the transport of meteorites between planets, the delivery of meteoroids from the main asteroid belt, and the possibility of the transport of life via this mechanism, known as panspermia. He also studies planet formation, especially the puzzle of how the giant planets came to be. He is discoverer or co-discoverer of many astronomical bodies in the solar system, asteroids, Kuiper Belt comets, and many moons of the giant planets: *Uranus: Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, and Ferdinand *Saturn: A dozen satellites in several groups, each named after a theme of Canadian Inuit gods, French deities, and Norse gods *Neptune: The satellite Neso *Jupiter: Discovery and co-discovery of 6 moons Gladman is a member of the (Canada France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) ), and (OSSOS survey ) which has detected and tracked the world's largest sample of well-understood Kuiper Belt comets, including unusual objects like Buffy = 2004 XR190 and Drac == 2008 KV42, the first transneptunian object on a retrograde orbit around the Sun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brett J. Gladman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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