Michael S. Kelley

I am a planetary scientist specializing in comets, software, and data archiving. My cometary interests have spanned from the thermal emission from dust, to the behavior of comets as they orbit the Sun, to the distribution of their dust and gas as seen in telescopic and spacecraft data. I have also developed open source software for comets specifically and planetary astronomy more generally. I have interests in increasing the accessibility of planetary data through data sharing, metadata standardization, and long-term data archiving.

Research Areas:

Solar System

Time Domain Astronomy

Research Centers & Collaborations:

Small Bodies Node

Space Missions

Facilities:

Lowell Discovery Telescope