Carolyn+Shoemaker

SUMMARY
Carolyn Shoemaker holds the record for most comet discoveries, more then 800 asteroids and 32 comets. Growing up she had no particular interest in astronomy or stars, nor did she really care for science, and the science classes she took growing up bore her. After she was born her family relocated to Chico, California from New Mexico, where she attended college at Chico state and received a BS and MS in history and political science, she didn't quite know what to do or where to go and ended up becoming a teacher and then finding out that it wasn't suited for her. It wasn't until her future husband Eugene Shoemaker kind of sparked her interest in science, changing the way she originally thought about it. Gene established USGS Center for Astrogeology in Flagstaff, Arizona, at this time Carolyn became a field assistant to her husband. Her husband sparked and encouraged her interests in so many things, including the beginning of her science journey. She gradually worked into planetary astronomy as a career, she wasn't until almost age 51 before really starting her career. Meeting her husband was the start of finding her passion and career, they helped each other grow and become successful just as much both together and individually.

URL (INCLUDING ACTIVE LINK)
@https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/people/carolyn-shoemaker @https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolyn-Shoemaker @http://introductionsnecessary.com/2016/04/09/carolyn-shoemaker/ @https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_shoemaker_a.htm @https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_S._Shoemaker @https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14319331-100-a-comet-by-any-other-name/

@https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/19/us/dr-eugene-shoemaker-69-set-record-for-finding-comets.html @https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Carolyn_S._Shoemaker.html @https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794703/bio @https://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/astronomers/carolyn-shoemaker-info.htm

IMAGE
1st photo found on Wikipedia. 2nd is Carolyn and her husband Gene, photo found on: @http://www.rittenhouseastronomicalsociety.org/Pages/rasmedalrecipients.htm

AUTHOR
Most information found from: @https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/people/carolyn-shoemaker

By Mary G. Chapman

LAST UPDATED - IF KNOWN
May 17, 2002

DATE REVIEWED
May 16, 2018

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Angelica R. Gonzalez

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