The University of Arizona Press

Richard P. Binzel is a professor of planetary science and joint professor of aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Binzel began Pluto investigations in the early 1980s with studies of Pluto’s rotational light curve, leading to the detection, observation, and modeling of mutual transits and occultations between Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon. To date, he has authored or co-authored more than forty refereed papers on the Pluto system. He is also the general editor of the Space Science Series.