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Scott Sander Sheppard is an American astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate. Starting as a graduate student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, he was credited with the discovery of many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He has also discovered the second known leading Neptune trojan, , and the first known trailing Neptune trojan, . Scott has also been involved with many discoveries of Kuiper belt objects, centaurs, comets and near-Earth asteroids. Among the named moons in whose discovery he has been involved are: ;Jupiter *Themisto (2000), first discovered by Charles Kowal in 1975 *Harpalyke (2000) *Praxidike (2000) *Chaldene (2000) *Isonoe (2000) *Erinome (2000) *Taygete (2000) *Kalyke (2000) *Megaclite (2000) *Iocaste (2000) *Dia (2000) *Euporie (2001) *Orthosie (2001) *Euanthe (2001) *Thyone (2001) *Hermippe (2001) *Pasithee (2001) *Aitne (2001) *Eurydome (2001) *Autonoe (2001) *Sponde (2001) *Kale (2001) *Arche (2002) *Eukelade (2003) *Helike (2003) *Aoede (2003) *Hegemone (2003) *Kallichore (2003) *Cyllene (2003) *Mneme (2003) *Thelxinoe (2003) *Carpo (2003) *Kore (2003) *Herse (2003) *S/2003 J 2 (2003) *S/2003 J 3 (2003) *S/2003 J 4 (2003) *S/2003 J 5 (2003) *S/2003 J 9 (2003) *S/2003 J 10 (2003) *S/2003 J 12 (2003) *S/2003 J 15 (2003) *S/2003 J 16 (2003) *S/2003 J 18 (2003) *S/2003 J 19 (2003) *S/2003 J 23 (2003) *S/2011 J 1 (2011) *S/2011 J 2 (2011) ;Saturn *Narvi (2003) *Fornjot (2004) *Farbauti (2004) *Aegir (2004) *Bebhionn (2004) *Hati (2004) *Bergelmir (2004) *Fenrir (2004) *Bestla (2004) *Hyrrokkin (2004) *Kari (2004) *S/2004 S 7 (2004) *S/2004 S 12 (2004) *S/2004 S 13 (2004) *S/2004 S 17 (2004) *Loge (2006) *Surtur (2006) *Skoll (2006) *Greip (2006) *Jarnsaxa (2006) *S/2006 S 1 (2006) *S/2006 S 3 (2006) *Tarqeq (2007) *S/2007 S 2 (2007) *S/2007 S 3 (2007) ;Uranus *Margaret (2003) ;Neptune *Psamathe (2003) ==Additional involvements== Scott Sheppard has also been involved in the discovery of possible dwarf planets such as , , , and . He is a co-discoverer of the satellite of Kuiper belt object .〔 He also discovered Plutino . In 2014 Sheppard was the lead discoverer of the object with the most distant orbit known in the solar system (nicknamed Biden) and in 2015, along with Chad Trujillo, the distant TNO V774104. 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「Scott S. Sheppard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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