Richard John Terrile (born March 22, 1951, in New York) is aVoyager scientist who discovered severalmoons[1] ofSaturn,Uranus, andNeptune. He works for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 1984, together withBradford A. Smith, Terrile became the first to photograph aprotoplanetary disc aroundBeta Pictoris using a coronagraph.[2]
Terrile is a supporter of thesimulation hypothesis, the idea that our reality is a computer-generatedvirtual reality created by unknown programmers.[3][4]
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