Michael S. P. Kelley

Principal Research Scientist

University of Maryland
Department of Astronomy
Phone: 301-405-3796
msk@astro.umd.edu
(Not to be confused with Michael "NASA HQ" Kelley)

Spectroscopic identification of water emission from a main-belt comet

May 2023

With JWST, we identified a water coma around a rare type of object that lives in the asteroid belt!

The paper The press release

Zwicky Transient Facility Survey of Cometary Outbursts

March 2018 to December 2022

With the Zwicky Transient Facility, we are surveying the comet population for outburst events, and initiating follow-up observations to examine outburst ejecta properties.

LCO Outbursting Objects Key (LOOK) Project

July 2020 to July 2023

The LOOK Project is using the global Las Cumbres Observatory telescope network to characterize dynamically new comets in support of ESA's Comet Interceptor mission, and to study cometary and asteroidal outbursts.

Cometary Science Newsletter

April 2015

The Cometary Science Newsletter is a monthly newsletter dedicated to sharing and furthering cometary science.