David Jewitt

 
 
I am interested in the primitive bodies of the Solar System, especially the comets. In all likelihood, these objects are remnants from the accretional processes by which the major planets grew. My hope is that the properties of the comets will throw light on the nature and evolution of the protoplanetary disk. This connects naturally with the general issue of planet formation, and with the existence of dust disks around young stars.
 


"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

                                            -William Blake

••CURRENT LINKS••

Publications

Curriculum Vitae  (pdf)

Autobiography for Shaw and Kavli

Picture Page

iPLEX Home Page

My Classes

Students and Colleagues

Videos


••Science Links••

Kuiper Belt Home Page

Comet Home Page

Main Belt Comets

P/2010 A2 Asteroid Smash

(3200) Phaethon

Comet Holmes

Irregular Satellites

Damocloids

Scheila Asteroid Smash


••RECENT POPULAR ARTICLES••

What Else is Out There? (pdf)

Pluto, Perception & Planetary Politics (pdf)

Discovery of the Kuiper Belt (pdf)

Shaw Prize Lecture (pdf)

250 Word Response for the Global Chorus project


••RECENT SCIENCE PAPERS••

Phaethon Re-Activates (pdf)

Dynamics in P/2010 A2 (pdf)

Near-Sun Asteroids (pdf)

Large Particles in Active Asteroid P/2010 A2 (pdf)

The Active Asteroids (pdf)

Comet Holmes & SMEI (pdf)

Activity in Phaethon (pdf)

The Active Centaurs (pdf)

Main-Belt Comet P/2008 R1 (pdf)

Magnetite in B-Type Asteroids (pdf)

Saas Fee Advanced Course (pdf)

Six Hot Topics in Planetary Astronomy (pdf)

The Kuiper Belt and Other Debris Disks (pdf)

Icy Bodies in the Solar System (pdf)


••OTHER Links••

  1. 1.The Obligatory Quotes

  2. 2.Favorite Links

  3. 3.UCLA Earth and Space Science

  4. 4.Meetings and Societies

David Jewitt

3713 Geology Building, UCLA,

595 Charles Young Drive East

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567.  Tel: 310-825-2521.

[email: jewitt @ ucla.edu]