• Question: Do you enjoy the fact that your job incorporates both physics and geography and are you happy it turned out that way?

    Asked by unicorndust to Alan on 11 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Alan Fitzsimmons

      Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 11 Mar 2014:


      Yep, its kind of fun. I don’t do much geography on asteroids, in a telescope almost all asteroids are points of light. But we can tell what kind of rock they are made from and that’s a type of geography called geology.

      On Earth I just go to cool places like mountain tops and asteroid craters and enjoy the view!

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