- John J. Kavelaars
J-John Kavelaars, better known as JJ Kavelaars , is a Canadian astronomer who was part of a team that discovered several moons of
Jupiter ,Saturn ,Uranus , andNeptune .Dr. Kavelaars is a graduate of the
Glencoe District High School inGlencoe, Ontario , theUniversity of Guelph , andQueen's University ,Kingston, Ontario . He is currently an astronomer at theDominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, B.C.In the course of his work, he has been responsible for the discovery of about twenty or so satellites (moons) of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and a hundred or so minor planets. Dr. Kavelaars is the Coordinator of the [http://www.cfeps.astrosci.ca/ Canada France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS)] which is part of the
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy SurveyCFHTLS : a project dedicated to the discovery and tracking of objects in the outer solar system.Dr. Kavelaars is the brother of Canadian actress
Ingrid Kavelaars and Canadian fencing athleteMonique Kavelaars .The asteroid
154660 Kavelaars was named in his honour on1 June 2007 by his colleagueDavid D. Balam .MPCit_JPL|154660External links
* [http://members.aol.com/gdhs50/ Autobiography from 2003]
* [http://salish.dao.nrc.ca/~kavelaar/ Homepage at NRC]
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