Brett James Gladman (born April 19, 1966)^[2][3] is aCanadianastronomer and a full professor at theUniversity of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy inVancouver,British Columbia. He holds theCanada Research Chair inplanetary astronomy.^[4] He does both theoretical work (large-scale numerical simulations of planetary dynamics) and observational optical astronomy (being a discoverer of many planetary moons and minor planets).

Gladman is best known for his work in dynamical astronomy in the Solar System. He has studied the transport of meteorites between planets, the delivery of meteoroids from the main asteroid belt, and the possibility of the transport of life via this mechanism, known aspanspermia. He also studies planet formation, especially the puzzle of how the giant planets came to be.

He is discoverer or co-discoverer of many astronomical bodies in theSolar System, asteroids, Kuiper Belt comets, and manymoons of the giant planets:

• Uranus:Caliban,Sycorax,Prospero,Setebos,Stephano, andFerdinand
• Saturn: A dozen satellites in several groups, each named after a theme of Canadian Inuit gods, French deities, and Norse gods
• Neptune: The satelliteNeso
• Jupiter: Discovery and co-discovery of 6 moons

Gladman is a member of theCanada–France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS), and theOuter Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) which has detected and tracked the world's largest sample of well-understood Kuiper belt comets, including unusual objects like2004 XR190 ("Buffy") and2008 KV42 ("Drac"), the first trans-Neptunian object on a retrograde orbit around the Sun.

Gladman was awarded theH. C. Urey Prize by the Division of Planetary Sciences of theAmerican Astronomical Society in 2002. Themain-belt asteroid7638 Gladman is named in his honor.^[4] During 2008–2011 he served as member and chair of the Science Advisory Council of theCanada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. He was awarded aKillam Research Fellowship in 2015.

Partial listing only below; discoveries number in the many hundreds of asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects.

• List of minor planet discoverers § B. Gladman

• Brett Gladman at the Astronomy group of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC and Institute of Planetary Science

• 1966 births
• 21st-century Canadian astronomers
• Canada Research Chairs
• Discoverers of minor planets
• Discoverers of moons
• Discoverers of trans-Neptunian objects
• Discoveries by Brett J. Gladman
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• Planetary scientists
• Academic staff of the University of British Columbia

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