Robin Canup
{{short description|American astrophysicist}}
Robin M. Canup (born November 20, 1968) is an American planetary scientist. Her main area of research concerns the origins of planets and satellites.[http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~robin/ University of Boulder Profile], boulder.swri.edu; accessed March 9, 2015. In 2003, Canup was awarded the Harold C. Urey Prize.{{cite web |url=http://dps.aas.org/prizes/urey |title=Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science |website=Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association |access-date=2015-01-12}} In April, 2022, Canup presented the findings of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey as co-chair of the Survey Steering Committee with Philip R. Christensen.{{cite web | url=https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/planetary-science-and-astrobiology-decadal-survey-2023-2032 | title=Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023 2032 | National Academies }}
Biography
She received her B.S. from Duke University and her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Canup is known for her research based upon the giant impact hypothesis, using intensive modeling to simulate how planetary collisions unfold.{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1038/35089010| issn = 0028-0836| volume = 412| issue = 6848| pages = 708–712| last1 = Canup| first1 = Robin M.| last2 = Asphaug| first2 = Erik| title = Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation| journal = Nature| date = 2001-08-16| pmid=11507633| bibcode = 2001Natur.412..708C| s2cid = 4413525}}{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1006/icar.1999.6201| issn = 0019-1035| volume = 142| issue = 1| pages = 219–237| last1 = Agnor| first1 = Craig B.| last2 = Canup| first2 = Robin M.| last3 = Levison| first3 = Harold F.| title = On the Character and Consequences of Large Impacts in the Late Stage of Terrestrial Planet Formation| journal = Icarus| date = 1999| bibcode=1999Icar..142..219A| s2cid = 28238627}}{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.09.028| issn = 0019-1035| volume = 168| issue = 2| pages = 433–456| last = Canup| first = Robin M.| title = Simulations of a late lunar-forming impact| journal = Icarus| date = 2004| bibcode=2004Icar..168..433C}}{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1146/annurev.astro.41.082201.113457| volume = 42| issue = 1| pages = 441–475| last = Canup| first = Robin M.| title = Dynamics of Lunar Formation| journal = Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics| date = 2004| bibcode=2004ARA&A..42..441C}} In 2012, Canup first published a refinement to the giant impact hypothesis, arguing that the Moon and the Earth formed in a series of steps that started with a massive collision of two planetary bodies, each larger than Mars, which then re-collided to form what we now call Earth.{{cite journal |title=Forming a Moon with an Earth-like Composition via a Giant Impact |first=Robin M. |last=Canup |journal=Science |volume=338 |issue=6110 |pages=1052–1055 |date=2012-11-23 |doi=10.1126/science.1226073|pmc=6476314 |pmid=23076098 |bibcode=2012Sci...338.1052C}} After the re-collision, Earth was surrounded by a disk of material, which combined to form the Moon.{{cite news | url=http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/moon_formation.html | accessdate=2012-12-05 | title=NASA Lunar Scientists Develop New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation | work=NASA Press Release | publisher=NASA | date=2012-10-30 | archive-date=2019-02-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223194056/https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/moon_formation.html | url-status=dead }} She has written a book on the origin of the Earth and Moon.{{Cite book| edition = 2nd| publisher = University of Arizona Press| isbn = 978-0-8165-2073-2| others = Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter (eds.)| title = Origin of the Earth and Moon| location = Tucson : Houston| date = 2000-11-01}} Canup has also published research describing a giant impact origin for Pluto and Charon.{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1126/science.1106818| issn = 1095-9203| volume = 307| issue = 5709| pages = 546–550| last = Canup| first = Robin M.| title = A Giant Impact Origin of Pluto-Charon| journal = Science| date = 2005-01-28| pmid = 15681378|bibcode = 2005Sci...307..546C | s2cid = 19558835| url = https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141119-161740181}}
Canup is an accomplished ballet dancer and danced the lead role in Coppélia in the Boulder Ballet one week after finishing her dissertation.{{Cite news| last = Finn| first = Ed| title = Robin Canup| work = Popular Science| accessdate = 2015-10-13| date = 2004-10-29| url = http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-10/robin-canup}}
Selected works
- {{Cite book| edition = 2nd| publisher = University of Arizona Press| isbn = 978-0-8165-2073-2| others = Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter (eds.)| title = Origin of the Earth and Moon| location = Tucson : Houston| date = 2000-11-01}}
- {{cite book|title=Defending Planet Earth:: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies|author=National Research Council (various) | publisher=National Academies Press|year=2010|isbn=9780309149686 }} (member of Space Studies board)
- Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter, Nicolas Dauphas et al.: [https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/rimg/article-abstract/89/1/53/629984/Origin-of-the-Moon Origin of the Moon]. In: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. Vol. 89, No 1. Dec. 2023.
References
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External links
- {{vimeo|id=65600193|title=NAS Research Briefings: Robin M. Canup - Formation of Planetary Moons}} from National Academy of Sciences
- [https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_15-0r9m32p92s Interview with Robin Canup for NOVA series: To the Moon] WGBH Educational Foundation, raw footage, 1998
- [http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-0r9m32p92s “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Robin M. Canup, Astrophysicist,”] 1998-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC.
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