Michael L. Sitko
Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati
"Leadership derives from strength of character, not opinion polls and focus groups. The other should be called followership."
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My interests center around the nature of
interstellar, circumstellar, and interplanetary
dust grains, and the role they play in the formation of planetary systems. In
the past few years I have been investigating the emission characteristics of
the grains in the dusty disks surrounding young stars, and how they are
evolving as the stellar systems age. The particle sizes and compositions are
being compared to those of the diffuse interstellar medium, cometary grains of our own solar system, and dust grains
condensed in the laboratory. Most of my recent observational work has been
carried out with the Broadband Array Spectrograph System (BASS) of The
Aerospace Corporation on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility.
What’s the life of an astronomer really like? To see what a typical observing session at the IRTF is like, go here, or see another group’s video
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A Short Vita
Archive of Published Mid-IR Spectra and Mike's SpeX Data
Reduction Manual (v2) (34 MB pdf)
ADS
Search of All of My Publications
ADS
Search of My Refereed Publications
Scientific Background: The Formation and Evolution of
Solar Systems
Astronomy at UC
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
In 2005 I
also became an off-site employee of the Space Science Institute.
Web Sites for Some Important
Planetary Missions
Mars Global Surveyor
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Mars Odyssey
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Mars
Express
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Mars Rovers
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Phoenix Mars Mission at U of AZ
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Phoenix Mars Mission at
JPL
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Phoenix Mars Mission
NASA HQ’s
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Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter
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