Steven Soter

Steven Soter

Los Angeles, California, USA

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A graduate of UCLA in astronomy and physics and later of Cornell with a doctorate in astronomy, he studied under mentors such as George Abell, Peter Goldreich, Thomas Gold, Carl Sagan and Joseph Burns before moving into research. Early contributions included a 1974 hypothesis that dust from Saturn’s moon Phoebe could drift inward and darken Iapetus, a mechanism later supported by Cassini observati…

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