Scott S. Sheppard
I am a faculty member at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory in Washington, DC. My interests are in the formation and evolution of planets and solar systems. To explore this broad topic, I discover and characterize small bodies in our solar system such as asteroids, comets, moons, dwarf planets and other objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond.
New Uranus and Neptune moons Announced in 2024 ***new***
New Saturn Moons Announced in 2023: See the Saturn Moon Table: Read the Paper
New Jupiter Moons Announced in 2023: See the Jupiter Moon Table: Read the Paper
Close In: Discovery of the Shortest Orbital Period Asteroid Around the Sun
FarFarOut: Discovery of the Most Distant Object Observed in Our Solar System
20 New Moons found around Saturn, Making Saturn the Moon King
Public Helps Name Jupiter's Recently Discovered Moons
Farout: A Very Distant Object in Our Solar System
New Inner Oort Cloud Object Discovered: The Goblin
12 New Jupiter Moons Found, Including one Oddball
Hunt for Ninth Planet Discovers New Distant Solar System Objects
Extreme Dwarf Planet Discovered
Discovery of the First Trailing Neptune Trojan
See the Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto Pages.
Scott Sheppard's Curriculum Vitae