yanga, fernández, yanga, roland, fernández, born, june, 1971, canadian, born, american, astronomer, university, central, florida, born, 1971, june, 1971, mississauga, ontario, canadanationalityamericanoccupationastronomertogether, with, scott, sheppard, discov. Yanga Yan Roland Fernandez born June 10 1971 is a Canadian born American astronomer at the University of Central Florida Yanga R FernandezBorn 1971 06 10 June 10 1971 age 52 Mississauga Ontario CanadaNationalityAmericanOccupationAstronomerTogether with Scott S Sheppard he co discovered the Carme group a group of moons of the planet Jupiter Life editBorn in Mississauga Ontario Yanga grew up in New York City Minneapolis Washington D C and went to high school in Fort Myers Florida After undergraduate studies at California Institute of Technology Yan received his Ph D at the University of Maryland College Park in 1999 As a student in 1994 he helped maintain one of the first e mail lists used by astronomers to communicate news about a fast breaking event the impact of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 into Jupiter From 1999 to 2005 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi then accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Central Florida His research focuses on the physical properties and evolution of asteroids and comets Asteroid 12225 Yanfernandez was named in his honor External links editYanga R Fernandez MPC Citation nbsp nbsp nbsp This United States astronomer article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yanga R Fernandez amp oldid 1180966889, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
