Heidi Hammel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Heidi Hammel
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Mar 14, 1960(1960-03-14)
Age	64
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Heidi Hammel Biography

Heidi Hammel is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on March 14, 1960 in California, United States. Heidi B. Hammel, born March 14, 1960, is a planetary Astronomer who has extensively studied Uranus and Neptune. She was part the 1989 Voyager 2 team that imaged Neptune. She was the leader of the Hubble Space Telescope team that viewed Shoemaker-Levy 9’s collision with Jupiter in 1994. To study Uranus, she has used the Keck Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. She discovered new information about dark areas, planetary storms, and Uranus’ rings. She was chosen as an interdisciplinary scientist in 2002 for the James Webb Space Telescope.

Hammel was part of the first team to spot Neptune’s Great Dark Spot. This is a storm that can reach as high as Earth’s surface. She also led the Hubble Space Telescope team, which documented the Great Dark Spot disappearing after only a few years in 1994.

Hammel has been awarded prizes both for her research (including the 1996 Harold C. Urey Prize of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences) and for her public outreach (such as the San Francisco Exploratorium’s 1998 Public Understanding of Science Award). Hammel was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in

2000. She has also been lauded for her work in public outreach, including the 2002 Carl Sagan Medal for outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public; the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s 1995 Klumpke-Roberts Award for public understanding and appreciation of astronomy; and the 1996 “Spirit of American Women” National Award for encouraging young women to follow non-traditional career paths.

With colleague Imke de Pater, Heidi Hammel has been studying Uranus with the Keck telescope since 2000. Hammel reported clocking the fastest winds ever recorded on Uranus, roaring along between 107 and 111 meters per second (240 and 260 miles per hour); the winds were measured in October 2003 on the northernmost parts of the planet visible at that time.

It produced plumes of gases that rose to 1,000 miles in height. Jupiter was covered in atmospheric soot. We would all have died if that impact had occurred on Earth. It would have caused a significant disruption to the biosphere. This is what we believe happened to the dinosaurs. (Report on Jupiter’s atmosphere response to the 1994 comet collision.

Heidi Hammel Net Worth

Heidi Hammel is one of the richest Astronomer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Heidi Hammel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hammel earned her undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, and her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii. Hammel returned to MIT in 1988, after a postdoctoral appointment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. She was a principal researcher scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences for nearly nine years.

Hammel studies the outer planets and satellites of these stars, with a particular focus on observational methods. She was part of the Imaging Science Team that assisted Voyager 2 in its encounter with Neptune in 1989.

In 1994, Hammel led the team that investigated Jupiter’s visible wavelength response to the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 using the Hubble Space Telescope. As the leader of the ground team Hammel analyzed photos of this event taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. Hammel was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s public face, explaining the science to television audiences worldwide.

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Hammel joined The Planetary Society’s Board of Directors in 2005. On May 7, 2009 the Women’s Board of the Adler Planetarium awarded Hammel with the 2009 Women in Space Science Award.

Facts & Trivia

Heidi Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Heidi Hammel celebrates birthday on March 14 of every year.

In June 2010, Hammel participated in the World Science Festival held in New York City, by the James Webb Space Telescope model in Battery Park. Hammel talked about the discoveries anticipated in 2014 with the launching of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the world’s most powerful space telescope, being the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Other speakers included John C. Mather, a Nobel laureate and the Webb telescope’s senior project scientist and Dr. John Grunsfeld, astronaut, physicist and “chief repairman” of the Hubble Telescope.

What did Heidi Hammel discover?

Hammel discovered that Uranus’ nine main rings comprise a single layer of particles , something not found in other rings. With the super-sharp optics system used at the W. M. Keck Observatory, de Pater and Hammel found an 11th ring around Uranus, a narrow sheet of rocky debris.

Where was Heidi Hammel born?

California

When was Heidi Hammel born?

March 14, 1960 (age 62 years)

Where did Heidi Hammel work?

After a post-doctoral position at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Hammel returned to MIT, where she spent nearly nine years as a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.