\"Astronomer\" Bradford A. Smith Hand Signed Program Dated 1982 For Sale

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\"Astronomer\" Bradford A. Smith Hand Signed Program Dated 1982:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Astronomer" Bradford A. Smith Hand Signed Program Dated 1982. 

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Bradford

A. Smith (September 22,

1931 – July 3, 2018) was an American astronomer and an associate of the International Astronomical

Union. He was employed by the Voyager program, and discovered the moon Bianca (which orbits Uranus) on January 23, 1986. He was an Associate Professor of

Astronomy at New Mexico State

University, a Professor at the University of Arizona, and

a Research Astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

 Through his work of astronomy he

was a team member or team leader of the imaging subsystems of several US and

international space missions. The missions were Mars Mariners 6,7, and 9. Viking, Voyager 1 and 2, and

the Soviet Vega and Phobos missions. With the Voyager 2 mission he discovered

Bianca. He soon changed his interest to extrasolar planetary systems,

investigating circumstellar debris disks as a member of the Hubble team. Smith has four times been awarded

the NASA Medal

for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He was a member of the

IAU Working

Group for Planetary System Nomenclature and was Chair of the

Task Group for Mars Nomenclature. He died in Santa Fe on July 3, 2018 from

complications of myasthenia gravis.

"Astronomer" Bradford A. Smith Hand Signed Program Dated 1982

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1971 Press Photo Astronomer Bradford Smith Gives Presentation Mars Dust Storm

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