Jonathan I. Lunine (born June 26, 1959) is an American planetary scientist and physicist. Lunine teaches at Cornell University, where he is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy. Having published more than 380 research papers, Lunine is at the forefront of research into planet formation, evolution, and habitability. His work includes analysis of brown dwarfs, gas giants, and planetary satellites. Within the Solar System, bodies with potential organic chemistry and prebiotic conditions, particularly Saturn's moon Titan, have been the focus of Lunine's research.[1]
Lunine is the David Baltimore Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission to Saturn, and on the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as co-investigator on the Juno mission launched in 2011 to Jupiter. He is the principal investigator of a proposed astrobiology mission to Enceladus called Enceladus Life Finder.[2]
Lunine is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,[3] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, which gave him its Basic Science Award in 2009. In 2015 he was awarded the Jean Dominique Cassini medal of the European Geosciences Union. He earned a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the University of Rochester in 1980, followed by M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees in lllPlanetary lllScience from the California Institute of Technology.[4]
Lunine was raised Jewish, but is a convert to Catholicism who helped found the Society of Catholic Scientists.[5] He also delivered a lecture on Georges Lemaître.[6]
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^Inner Workings: Icy ocean worlds offer chances to find life. Adam Mann, PNAS, 2 May 2017, vol. 114 no. 18 4566–4568, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1703361114
^News of being elected as a member of National Academy of Sciences
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520, 202–204 (9 April 2015); DOI: 10.1038/nature14278 Ravit Helled, JonathanLunine, Measuring Jupiter's water abundance by Juno: The link between interior...
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Nicolas; Gautier, Daniel; Hersant, Franck; Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique; Lunine, Jonathan I. (February 2003). "An interpretation of the nitrogen deficiency in...
OCLC 144226016. Retrieved 2013-12-29. Mitri, Giuseppe; Showman, Adam P.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Lorenz, Ralph D. (2007-02-01). "Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan". Icarus...
Burrows, Adam; Saumon, Didier; Guillot, Tristan; Hubbard, William B.; Lunine, Jonathan I. (1995). "Prospects for detection of extra-solar giant planets bynext-generation...
G.; Mastrogiuseppe, M.; Le Gall, A.; Lalich, D.; Gomez-Leal, I.; Lunine, Jonathan I. (2020). "The bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titan's Kraken Mare"....
life, David Grinspoon considers Venus and Jupiter’s moon Io, then JonathanLunine considers Saturn’s large moon Titan. Carolyn Porco notes the surprising...
Retrieved 25 June 2009. Glein, Christopher R.; Grundy, William M.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Wong, Ian; Protopapa, Silvia; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Stansberry...
; Stiles, Bryan; Hensley, Scott; Lorenz, Ralph; Kirk, Randolph L.; Lunine, Jonathan I. (15 May 2009). "Size and Shape of Saturn's Moon Titan". Science...
M. T.; Showman, A. P.; Radebaugh, J.; Stiles, B.; Lopes, R. M. C.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Pappalardo, R. T. (2010). "Mountains on Titan: Modeling and observations"...
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