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Thomas Momary

Education
  • B.S., Physics, University of California, San Diego (1992)
  • M.S., Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles (1996)
  • Professional Certificate in Computer Graphics, specialty in Animation, University of California, Los Angeles (in progress)

Projects

Cassini-Huygens Icon Cassini-Huygens
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is currently exploring the ringed planet, its mysterious moons, the stunning rings and its complex magnetic environment.


Professional Experience
  • Postgraduate Researcher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1993-Present)
  • Internship, EMA Multimedia, Inc. (1998)
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences/Dept. of Astronomy, UCLA (1992-1995)
  • Viewpoint Columnist, UCLA Daily Bruin (1992)

Selected Publications
  1. Baines, K.H., Momary, T.W., Carlson, R.W. , and Orton, G. S, "The Diversity of Cloud Structures in Jupier's Great Red Spot and Environs: Micro- and Macro-Physical Properties and Dynamical Implications as Derived from HST and Galileo/NIMS Center-to-Limb Spectral Maps," Bull. AAS, 35 (2003)
  2. Momary, T.W., Baines, K.H., Carlson, R.W. , and Orton, G. S, "Showing Their True Colors: The UV Near-IR Spectral Properties of Tropospheric Cloud Particles in Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Environs from HST and Galileo/NIMS Center-to-Limb Spectral Maps," Bull. AAS, 35 (2003)
  3. Momary, T. W., Baines, K. H., Yanamandra-Fisher, P. A., Lebofsky, L. A., Golisch, W., and Kaminski, C, "The Saturnian satellites in the near-infrared: absolute photometry at ring plane crossing," Icarus, 148, 307-311 (2000)
  4. Momary, T. W., Baines, K. H., Yanamandra-Fisher, P. A., Lebofsky, L. A., Golisch, W., and Kaminski, C., "The Saturnian satellites in the near-infrared: absolute photometry at ring plane crossing," Icarus, 148, 307-311 (2000)
  5. Baines, K. H., Yanamandra-Fisher, P., Lebofsky, L.A., Momary, T.W., Golisch, W., Kaminski, C., and Wild, W., "Near-infrared absolute photometric imaging of the Uranian System," Icarus, 132, 266-284 (1998)
  6. Chanover, N.J., Kuehn, D., Banfield, D., Momary, T. W., Beebe, R. F., Baines, K. H., Nicholson, P. D., Simon, A. A. and Murrell, A. S., "Absolute reflectivity spectra of Jupiter: 0.25 - 3.5 microns," Icarus, 121, 351-360 (1996)
  7. Orton, G., AHearn, M., Baines, K., Deming, D., Dowling, T., Goguen, J., Griffith, C., Hammel, H., Hoffmann, W., Hunten, D., Jewitt, D., Kostiuk, T., Miller, S., Noll, K., Zahnle, K., Achilleos, N., Dayal, A., Deutsch, L., Espenak, F., Esterle, P., Friedson, J., Fast, K., Harrington, J., Hora, J., Joseph, R., Kelly, D., Knacke, R., Lacy, J., Lisse, C., Rayner, J., Sprague, A., Shure, M., Wells, K., Yanamandra-Fisher, P., Zipoy, D., Bjoraker, G., Buhl, D., Golisch, W., Griep, D., Kaminski, C., Arden, C., Chaiken, A., Goldstein, D., Gilmore, D., Fazio, G., Kanamori, T., Lam, H., Livengood, T., MacLow, M.-M., Marley, M., Momary. T., Robertson, D., Romani, P., Spitale, J., Sykes, M., Tennyson, J., Wellnitz, D., Ying, S.-W., "Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter observed by the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility," Science, 267, 1277-1282 (1995)

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