JACK JONATHAN LISSAUER - NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA  94035
Phone:  650-604-2293     Fax:  650-604-6779     Email:  Jack.J.Lissauer@nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for directing the proposed simulations of orbit stability for planetary systems and delivery of water to the inner planets by planetary embryos from the asteroid belt.

Related Experience Summary

Jack Lissauer is an authority on nebula dynamical processes, planet formation, and celestial dynamics. He is also a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, which will detect Earth-sized extrasolar planets and will be launched in 2007.

Employment History

• 8-96 to Pres., Space Scientist, AST, Planetary System - Planetary Systems Branch, Space Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
• 6-87 to 8-96, Assistant/Associate Professor, Astronomy Program, Department of Earth & Space Sciences State University of New York, Stony Brook

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, December 1982, University of California, Berkeley, CA.  Thesis title:  Dynamics of Saturn's Rings, Thesis advisor:  Frank H. Shu
• S.B. in Mathematics, February 1978, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Professional Societies

American Astronomical Society
International Astronomical Union
American Geophysical Union

Awards and Honors

Harold C. Urey Prize, Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, 1992
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1987-1991

Selected Relevant Publications

Lissauer, J.J., 1993.  "Planet Formation" Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys.  31, 129-174.

Lissauer, J.J., 1995.  "Urey Prize Lecture: On the Diversity of Plausible Planetary Systems" Icarus,114, 217-236.

Lissauer, J.J., 1997.  "Planetary Systems: Growing Up in a Two-Parent Family?"  Nature,  386, 18-19.

Lissauer, J.J., 1997.  "It's Not Easy to Make the Moon"  Nature,  389, 327-328.

Lissauer, J.J., 1999.  "How Common are Habitable Planets?" Nature 402, C11-C14.

Bodenheimer, P., O. Hubickyj and J.J. Lissauer, 2000.  "Models of the In Situ Formation of Detected Extrasolar Giant Planets"  Icarus 143,  2-14.

Lissauer, J.J., 2001.  "Time for Gas Planets to Grow" Nature 409, 23-24.

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