18499 Showalter | Discovered 1996 June 22 by NEAT at Haleakala. |
Mark R. Showalter (b. 1957), planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, is (co-)discover of the Jovian gossamer ring, Saturnian moon Pan, Uranian moons Mab and Cupid, two faint Uranian rings, Neptunian moon S/2004 N 1, and Plutonian moons Kerberos and Styx. He is the leader of the Planetary Data Systems Rings Node. |
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Reference: MPC batch dated 2014-09-09 | Last Updated: 2014-11-10 |
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