Alan Hale (astronomer)

Alan Hale (astronomer)

Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American astronomer.

Hale was born in Tachikawa, Japan, in 1958, but grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He served in the US Navy from 1976-1983, when he left the Navy. His next job was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he worked until 1986. While at the JPL, he worked as an engineering contractor for the Deep Space Network. While working as a contractor, he was involved with several projects involving spacecraft, including Voyager 2.After Voyager's encounter with Uranus, he left JPL to attend New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, earning his Ph.D. in astronomy in 1992. Facing a poor job market for astronomers, he founded the Southwest Institute for Space Research (now formally named the Earthrise Institute). Hale is an advocate for improved scientific literacy in society, better career opportunities for scientists, and individual responsibility for making a better society. He co-discovered Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 after seeing more than 200 comets. Comet Hale-Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) was probably the most widely observed comet of the twentieth century, and one of the brightest seen for many decades. [http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/comet] His family includes wife Eva, sons Zachary (now a college student) and Tyler in Cloudcroft, New Mexico

References

# Newcott, William R. (Dec. 1997). "The age of comets". "National Geographic", p. 100.

External links

* [http://www.swisr.org/ Southwest Institute for Space Research]
* [http://www.earthriseinstitute.org/ Earthrise Institute]


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