Derek C. Richardson

Welcome to DCR's Web Space!

Here you will find links to my research, teaching, and other items of possible interest. I update these pages as often as I can, but not as often as I would like. I am solely responsible for the content, and any opinions expressed on these pages are my own.

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What's New?

• 5/11/12: Lots of new reprints available!
• 3/15/12: I will be teaching ASTR120 and ASTR121 yet again next academic year!
• 2/13/12: Added a reprint (and fixed the ADS queries on that page so they work as intended), and updated my CV.
• 8/4/11: There is some new stuff in the gallery -- check it out!
• 5/26/11: My student Randall Perrine's latest paper has now been been published in Icarus (also here)!
• 4/5/11: I will be teaching ASTR120 and ASTR121 again next academic year!
• 3/8/11: I have updated my CV.
• 2/26/11: My latest paper has now been published in Icarus (also here)!
• 1/9/11: Two papers for which I am a contributing author were just published in Icarus. Check them out!
• 8/28/10: I've updated my About Me page to add a link to my new Twitter account. Let's see if I can get a following!
• 8/25/10: Some of the research I'm involved in will be featured in the pilot of a new Discovery Channel series called Phil Plait's Bad Universe, airing Sun Aug 29 (check local listings). Watch the trailer! You may recognize the granite balls from the multimedia gallery.

Recent News

• 8/4/11: DAWN at Vesta!
• 5/3/11: Asteroid collision witnessed (with cool YouTube video explanation)!
• 2/15/11: Deep Impact crater imaged by Stardust-NExT!
• 2/1/11: Earth-size planet candidates announced by Kepler mission!
• 11/9/10: Pluto retakes the throne?
• 11/5/10: EPOXI images Hartley 2!
• 10/14/10: The PSC webcam is live!
• 9/29/10: Habitable exoplanet found??
• 9/9/10: The Deep Impact spacecraft is getting close to Comet Hartley 2!
• 7/16/10: WISE has found lots of new asteroids and comets!
• 7/10/10: Rosetta flies past Lutetia.
• 6/15/10: The Hayabusa capsule from Itokawa has made it back to Earth!
• 6/9/10: I was quoted in a Scientific American online article about the formation of the small moons of Saturn just outside the main rings (also see the accompanying News & Views article).