Jessica Mink

Jessica Mink
BornFebruary 1951 (age 75)
Lincoln, Nebraska
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forDiscovery of rings of Uranus; developing RVSAO and WCSTools, two widely-used astronomy software packages
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary science and positional astronomy
InstitutionsSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Thesis"Determination of Martian Surface Reflectivity from 0.4 to 1.1 Micron Using a Vidicon Spectrometer" (1974)
Websitehttps://www.jessicamink.com/ http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/mink/

Jessica Mink is an American software developer, positional astronomer, and data archivist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She was part of the team that discovered the rings around the planet Uranus.

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