Dr. Mario Juric

Institute Research Collaborator

Asteroid Institute

Profile

Professor Mario Juric is an Associate Professor of Astronomy and the Director of the DiRAC (Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology) Institute at the University of Washington. He is also a Senior Fellow at the University’s eScience Institute. Professor Juric is the PI of UW’s contribution to the Rubin Observatory, where he defined the science products Rubin will deliver, and he leads the Solar System Pipelines team for the observatory.

In the News

Chang, Kenneth. “Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 31 May 2022.

Skibba, Ramin. “The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here.” Wired, Conde Nast, 3 June 2022.

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Languages Spoken

English, Croatian

Research

Moeyens, Joachim, et al. “THOR: An Algorithm for Cadence-Independent Asteroid Discovery.” The Astronomical Journal 162.4 (2021): 143.

Jones, R. Lynne, et al. “The large synoptic survey telescope as a near-earth object discovery machine.” Icarus 303 (2018): 181-202.

Jurić, Mario, et al. “The LSST data management system.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07914 (2015).

Parker, A., et al. “The size distributions of asteroid families in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog 4.” Icarus 198.1 (2008): 138-155.

Photo credit: Christopher Michel