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Timothy J. McCoy
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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Timothy McCoy is
the Curator-in-Charge of the National Meteorite Collection at
the National Museum of Natural History. He earned his Ph.D.
from the University of Hawaii before holding a National Research
Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at NASA’s Johnson Space
Center in Houston, Texas. His research interests include the
melting of asteroids in the early history of the solar system,
reflectance spectroscopy as a tool for understanding meteorite-asteroid
connections, the volcanology of Mars, and planetary missions.
He was a Participating Scientist on the Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous mission and is currently a team member on the Mars
Exploration Rover mission. He oversees the Smithsonian’s
role in the U.S. Antarctic Meteorite Program, a collaborative
effort between the Smithsonian, NASA and the National Science
Foundation for the collection, curation and distribution of
meteorites collected in Antarctica.
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