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Michele Bannister

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New Zealand astrophysicist, science communicator

Michele Bannister
Photo of Bannister in Hawai'i
Bannister in front of theGemini North telescope on Hawai'i
Born1986 (age 38–39)
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisBright trans-Neptunian objects in the southern sky (2014)
Doctoral advisorPaul J. Francis,Brian Schmidt,Michael Brown
Websitewww.astro.uvic.ca/~micheleb/Edit this at Wikidata

Michele Bannister (born 1986) is a New Zealand planetaryastronomer andscience communicator at theUniversity of Canterbury, who has participated insurveying theoutermost Solar System fortrans-Neptunian objects.[1]

Early life and education

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Bannister is fromWaitara, New Zealand.[2] She attendedWaitara High School, where she won the Korean War Essay Competition.[3] She studied astronomy and geology at theUniversity of Canterbury, graduating in 2007 with first class honours.[2] She spent nine weeks working in theMcMurdo Dry Valleys.[2] Before starting her PhD she completed a summer school inCastel Gandolfo.[4] She earned her PhD in 2014, working ontrans-Neptunian objects at theAustralian National University.[5] She searched for new dwarf planets at theUppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.[6] The telescope survived theWarrumbungles fire which destroyed twelve properties inCoonabarabran.[7] Whilst atAustralian National University she played in the Flying Disc team.[8]

Research and career

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In 2014 she was co-investigator on the COLours for theOuter Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).[9] She was appointed a postdoctoral fellow at theUniversity of Victoria and theNational Research Council (Canada) in 2013.[2][10] Whilst at theUniversity of Victoria she discovered a trans-Neptunian object (2015 RR245) with theCanada–France–Hawaii Telescope.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]2015 RR245 is near theKuiper belt.[18] She played for a localUltimate team,[19] and published poetry.[20]

In August 2016 she joinedQueen's University Belfast.[21][22] She is on the Science Team of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer.[23] She was involved with the observation ofʻOumuamua, an interstellar object from another solar system that passed through our own in 2017.[24] She studied the brightness ofʻOumuamua and presented the colour composite image.[25][26][27]10463 Bannister was named after her in 2017.[28][29][1] In 2020 she returned to heralma mater, theUniversity of Canterbury as a lecturer in astrophysics.[30]

Public engagement

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Bannister is a popular science communicator, and has spoken at theRoyal Society,The Planetary Society,SETI Institute,Irish Astronomical Society and European Astrofest.[31][32][33] In 2013 she was a curator on the RealScientists channel.[34] She reported on the images coming in fromPluto during the spacecraft flyby onRadio New Zealand andNature in 2015.[35][36]

She discussedastronomy onCanadian radio stationCFAX between 2015 and 2016.[37] She appeared on theBBC Sky at Night in 2017 and 2018.[38][39] She has written forThe Conversation andThe Planetary Society magazine, as well as contributing toScientific American,Newsweek,National GeographicNew Scientist,Slate andThe Guardian.[40][41][42][43][44][45]

Awards and honors

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Asteroid10463 Bannister, discovered byEleanor Helin andSchelte Bus at theSiding Spring Observatory in 1979, was named in her honor.[1] The officialnaming citation was published by theMinor Planet Center on 13 April 2017 (M.P.C. 103975).[46]

Works

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  • Godfrey, Myfanwy J., Michele T. Bannister, D. Nobes, and Ronald S. Sletten. "3D time-lapse imaging of polygonal patterned ground in theMcMurdo dry valleys of Antarctica." (2008).
  • Fitzsimmons, Alan, Colin Snodgrass, Ben Rozitis, Bin Yang, Méabh Hyland, Tom Seccull, Michele T. Bannister, Wesley C. Fraser, Robert Jedicke, and Pedro Lacerda. "Spectroscopy and thermal modelling of the first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1ʻOumuamua." Nature Astronomy 2, no. 2 (2018): 133.
  • Bannister, Michele T., Megan E. Schwamb, Wesley C. Fraser, Michael Marsset, Alan Fitzsimmons, Susan D. Benecchi, Pedro Lacerda et al. "Col-OSSOS: colors of the interstellar planetesimal 1I/Oumuamua." arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06214 (2017).

References

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  1. ^abc"10463 Bannister (1979 MB9)".Minor Planet Center. Retrieved16 October 2019.
  2. ^abcd"Introducing Michele Bannister".astrotweeps. 25 April 2016. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  3. ^"PM announces winners of Korean War essay comp | Scoop News".www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  4. ^"Royal Society of New Zealand, Canterbury Branch".canterbury.rsnzbranch.org.nz. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  5. ^Bannister, Michele T.; Kavelaars, J. J.; Petit, Jean-Marc; Gladman, Brett J.; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Ying-Tung Chen; Volk, Kathryn; Alexandersen, Mike; Benecchi, Susan D. (2016)."The Outer Solar System Origins Survey. I. Design and First-quarter Discoveries".The Astronomical Journal.152 (3): 70.arXiv:1511.02895.Bibcode:2016AJ....152...70B.doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/3/70.hdl:10150/621497.ISSN 1538-3881.S2CID 54548905.
  6. ^"PhD Theses | Gemini Observatory: Exploring The Universe, Sharing Its Wonders".www.gemini.edu. Retrieved8 November 2022.
  7. ^"Oz astronomical observatory survives firestorm • The Register".www.theregister.co.uk. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  8. ^"ANU Hat - Australian Flying Disc Association".Australian Flying Disc Association. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  9. ^"OSSOS/MOP".GitHub. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  10. ^"People - Herzberg Astrophysics".Herzberg Astrophysics. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  11. ^"Former Taranaki astronomer helps find new planet".Stuff. 14 July 2016. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  12. ^"New Dwarf Planet Discovered At The Edge Of The Solar System".IFLScience. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  13. ^"New Dwarf Planet".cfht.hawaii.edu. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  14. ^Griffiths, James."New dwarf planet discovered beyond Pluto".CNN. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  15. ^"Dwarf planet spotted at solar system's outer fringe". Retrieved4 August 2018.
  16. ^"Astronomers discover dwarf planet beyond Neptune".ABC News. 12 July 2016. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  17. ^Chang, Kenneth (13 July 2016)."Astronomers Discover New Likely Dwarf Planet, the Latest of Many".The New York Times. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  18. ^"New dwarf planet discovered in Kuiper Belt | BBC Sky at Night Magazine".www.skyatnightmagazine.com. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  19. ^"Summer Hat League - Victoria Ultimate Players Society".Victoria Ultimate Players Society. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  20. ^"Michele Bannister".Strange Horizons. 31 October 2012. Retrieved7 August 2018.Michele Bannister has an uncommon fondness for distant worlds both small and icy. She lives in Australia, where she is working towards her doctorate in astronomy. Her poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, Stone Telling and other venues, in the Here, We Cross anthology (Stone Bird Press, 2012), and is forthcoming in Inkscrawl and Goblin Fruit.
  21. ^"Dr. Michele Bannister - Queen's University Belfast Research Portal - Research Directory & Institutional Repository for QUB".pure.qub.ac.uk. Archived fromthe original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved3 August 2018.
  22. ^"QUB Astrophysics Research Centre - Solar system studies".star.pst.qub.ac.uk. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  23. ^"MSE Science Team Membership".mse.cfht.hawaii.edu. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  24. ^"'Weird' interstellar asteroid yields no alien signals, resembles worlds beyond Neptune | CBC News".CBC. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  25. ^"Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua Has Grayish-Red Organic-Rich Surface Layer, Astronomers Say | Astronomy | Sci-News.com".Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. Retrieved5 August 2018.
  26. ^Scott, Sarah (12 February 2018)."Queen's boffin discovers violent past of first alien visitor".belfastlive. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  27. ^"TV crew in Belfast to get to the bottom of out-of-this-world mystery". Retrieved4 August 2018.
  28. ^"First arrival from afar: the interstellar planetesimal 'Oumuamua".European AstroFest 2018. Archived fromthe original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  29. ^"Asteroids named after Queen's astronomers". 26 January 2016. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  30. ^"Michele Bannister".The University of Canterbury.
  31. ^"European AstroFest 2018".European AstroFest 2018. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  32. ^Dan Foreman-Mackey (23 March 2016),PyAstro day 3, retrieved4 August 2018
  33. ^SETI Institute (18 March 2016),Exploring the outer Solar System: now in vivid colour - Michele Bannister (SETI Talks), retrieved4 August 2018
  34. ^"2013-03-17: Michele Bannister, Planetary Astronomer (@AstroKiwi) | RealScientists".realscientists.wordpress.com. 24 March 2013. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  35. ^"Pluto mission".Radio New Zealand. 17 July 2015. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  36. ^"First look at Pluto: Live coverage of the historic fly-by".Nature. 10 July 2015.doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17905.ISSN 1476-4687.S2CID 211729621.
  37. ^July 5 6am, retrieved4 August 2018
  38. ^"QUB Astrophysics Research Centre - News and press releases".star.pst.qub.ac.uk. Retrieved6 August 2018.
  39. ^"TV crew in Belfast to get to the bottom of out-of-this-world mystery". Retrieved6 August 2018.
  40. ^"Michele Bannister".The Conversation. 29 March 2017. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  41. ^"Michele Bannister – Astronomy Now".astronomynow.com. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  42. ^Davis, Nicola (12 August 2017)."Perseid meteor shower: everything you need to know to see it".the Guardian. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  43. ^"Beyond Pluto: New Horizons probe aims for another unseen world".New Scientist. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  44. ^Francis, Matthew R. (20 November 2014)."What's Next for Space Exploration?".Slate.ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  45. ^Billings, Lee."Looking for Planet Nine, Astronomers Gaze into the Abyss".Scientific American. Retrieved4 August 2018.
  46. ^"MPC/MPO/MPS Archive".Minor Planet Center. Retrieved16 October 2019.

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