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    David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American[citation needed] astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based...
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    this hypothetical region the "Kuiper belt".: 191  In 1987, astronomer David Jewitt, then at MIT, became increasingly puzzled by "the apparent emptiness...
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  • politician Christine Jewitt (1926–2018), Canadian outfielder David C. Jewitt (born 1958), British-American astronomer Edward Holmes Jewitt (1849–1929), English...
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    15760 Albion (category Discoveries by David C. Jewitt)
    about 108–167 kilometres in diameter, it was discovered in 1992 by David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii. After the discovery...
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    of new moon discoveries. Scott Sheppard, then a graduate student of David Jewitt, demonstrated this extended capability of CCD cameras in a survey conducted...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-58751-8. David Jewitt. "The Active Asteroids". UCLA, Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Retrieved 26 January 2020. Jewitt, David; Hsieh, Henry;...
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    Makemake (category Discoveries by David L. Rabinowitz)
    'e', and is used by Brown and his students. Astronomers Mike Brown, David Jewitt and Marc Buie classify Makemake as a near scattered object but the Minor...
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    Planet Center. Retrieved 19 August 2015. Dr. David Jewitt. "Classical Kuiper Belt Objects". David Jewitt/UCLA. Retrieved July 1, 2013. Schmadel, Lutz...
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    subsurface ocean due to thickening of an overlying layer of ice. In 2015, David Jewitt included Ceres in his list of active asteroids. Surface water ice is...
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    originally designated main-belt comets (MBCs) in 2006 by astronomers David Jewitt and Henry Hsieh, but this name implies they are necessarily icy in composition...
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