Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (Geologist)
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Background: Caltech Professor of Geology and Planetary Science, ; Professor of Geology, ; Chairman, Division of Geology, ; Research Associate, ; Visiting Professor, ; alumnus (BS ; MS ).
Biographical/Historical
Description: Eugene M. Shoemaker was born in Los Angeles and grew up in such widely scattered locales as Buffalo, New York, and Laramie, Wyoming. Eventually his family moved back to Los Angeles, where he graduated from high school. He entered Caltech in at the age of sixteen. From his youth he had wanted to study geology, and at Caltech he was caught up in the reorganization of that division that followed the disruptions of World War II. In Shoemaker joined the US Geological Survey (USGS) and would be afffiliated with that organization for most of his career. Shoemaker earned his PhD in geology from Princeton () while actively pursuing his fieldwork on craters. He was the founder of the study of planetary impact cratering on the Earth, Moon and planets. With his wife Carolyn he pioneered surveys of near-Earth asteroids and comets, culminating in the codiscovery with David Levy of Comet Shoemaker-Levy
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
March 14,
NASA RENAMES NEAR SPACECRAFT FOR PLANETARY SCIENCE PIONEER GENE SHOEMAKER
The NASA satellite conducting the first-ever close-up study of an asteroid will be renamed to honor Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker, a legendary geologist who influenced decades of research on the role of asteroids and comets in shaping the planets. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft, currently orbiting asteroid Eros more than million miles from Earth, will now be known as NEAR Shoemaker."Gene Shoemaker was an inspirational, charismatic pioneer in the field of interplanetary science," said Dr. Carl B. Pilcher, Director of Solar System Exploration at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. Pilcher announced the new name today during the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston. "It is a fitting tribute that we place his name on the spacecraft whose mission will expand on all he taught us about asteroids, comets and the origins of our solar system."
Shoemaker died in a car accident in the Australian outback while on an annual study of asteroid impact craters. With his wife and re
Eugene Shoemaker ()
EUGENE M. SHOEMAKER ()
Written by Brian MarsdenGene Shoemaker, renowned both as a geologist and an astronomer, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Spaceguard Foundation, was killed instantly on the afternoon of July 18, when his car collided head-on with another vehicle on an unpaved road in the Tanami Desert northwest of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia. His wife Carolyn, who had closely collaborated with him in both his geological and his astronomical activities for many years, was injured in the accident and is in stable condition in Alice Springs Hospital.
Born in Los Angeles, California, on April 28, Eugene Merle Shoemaker graduated from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena at the age of A thesis on the petrology of Precambrian metamorphic rocks earned him a master's degree only a year later, at which point he joined the United States Geological Survey, an organization with which he remained at least partly associated for the rest of his life. His first work for the USGS involved searching for uranium deposits in Colorado and Utah. While doing this, he also became interested in the moon, the possib
Shoemaker, Eugene Merle
(b. Los Angeles, California, 28 April, ; d. near Alice Springs, Australia, 18 July ), space science, astrogeology, studies of the populations of comets and asteroids, specifically those that could strike the Earth.
Shoemaker began a new science—the history of the solar system and the often violent interactions among the planets—called astrogeology. His early studies of lunar craters suggested that these features were the result of impacts, and that the crater record could provide an indication of the level of risk by impact to the Earth. These studies led to his training of astronauts for the Apollo program in the s. Shoemaker’s interests then turned from the effects of impact to the objects themselves, the comets and asteroids that do the impacting. This phase of his career reached its climax in July , when the comet he helped to discover, Shoemaker-Levy 9, collided with Jupiter in a cosmic and forceful demonstration of his ideas.
Early Life Gene Shoemaker’s interest in geology began with the gift of a set of marbles from his mother in , when he was seven years old. These small toys contained some unusual stones like agate, and they set him o
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