Peter Jenniskens

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Full Name	Peter Jenniskens
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Aug 2, 1962(1962-08-02)
Age	62
Birthplace	Horst, Limburg
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Limburg
Horoscope	Leo

Peter Jenniskens Biography

Peter Jenniskens is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on August 2, 1962 in Horst, Limburg, Limburg, Netherlands. Petrus Matheus (Peter) Jenniskens (born 2 August 1962 at Horst) is a Dutch and an American Astronomer, and an experienced research scientist in the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center. Jenniskens is an authority in meteor showers. Jenniskens is the writer of the 790 pages volume “Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets” published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. Jenniskens is the president of Commission 22 of the International Astronomical Union (2012-2015) and was the chair of the Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature (2006-2012) following the time it was established. The asteroid was discovered by the Ondrejov Observatory in the year 2006 by Petr Pravec, the asteroid “42981 Jenniskens” is named in honor of his name.

The discovery of fragments from the asteroid 2008 TC3 was the first time that fragments have been discovered from an object previously observed in space and then hit Earth. The search was conducted by Peter Jenniskens and Muawia Shaddad from The University of Khartoum, Sudan and was conducted with assistance from staff and students of the Khartoum University. The search for the impact zone started on the 6th of December the 6th of December, 2008 and found 24,5 pounds (11 kg) of rocks , in approximately 600 pieces.

In 2008, Jenniskens together with Muawia Shaddad, led a team from the University of Khartoum in Sudan that recovered fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the Nubian Desert, marking the first time meteorite fragments had been found from an object that was previously tracked in outer space before hitting Earth.

His research also includes artificial meteors. An overview of ongoing missions can be found at: [1]. Jenniskens is the principal investigator of NASA’s Genesis and Stardust Entry Observing Campaigns to study the fiery return from interplanetary space of the Genesis (Sep. 2004), Stardust (Jan. 2006), and Hayabusa (June 2010) sample return capsules. The beautiful reentry of JAXA’s Hayabusa probe over Australia on 13 June 2010 also included the disintegrating main spacecraft. These airborne missions studied what physical conditions the protective heat shield endured during the reentry before being recovered.

The most recent meteor shower missions include the Aurigid Multi-Instrument Aerial Campaign (Aurigid Mac) that studied an unusual September 1, 2007 eruption of Aurigids originating from the long-period comet C/1911N1 (Kiess) as well as the Quadrantid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Quadrantid MAC) and the January 3rd 2008. Quadrantids.

Peter Jenniskens Net Worth

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

Jenniskens is the chief researcher of NASA’s Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid MAC) which was a set of four airborne mission that utilized modern instruments to analyze the 1998 and 2003 Leonids meteor showers. These missions contributed to the development of meteor forecasting models. They also discovered the presence of organic matter in meteors’ aftermath as a possible precursor to the study of the origin of life chemistry and revealed a myriad of different elements of the meteor’s radiation.

Jenniskens discovered a variety of important ways in which our meteor showers begin. From 2003 onwards, Jenniskens discovered the Quadrantids main body in 2003 EH1 as well as a number of other as fresh examples of how comets fragmented are the primary sources of meteor showers. These comets are now recognised as the primary source of the Zodiacal dust cloud. Prior to this the astronomer predicted and observed his observations of the 1995 Alpha Monocerotids meteor outburst (with members of the Dutch Meteor Society), showing it was true that “stars fell like rain at midnight” because dust trails from comets with long periods of orbit wander through the Earth’s direction.

More recently, Jenniskens led a mission to study the destructive entry of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle “Jules Verne” on 29 September 2008, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA6 reentry on 22 June 2016, and the spectacular daytime re-entry of space debris object WT1190F near Sri-Lanka to practice a future observation of an impacting asteroid.

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