Max Mutchler

My projects as a Research and Instrument Scientist primarily involve the cameras of the
Hubble Space Telescope

Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
Operated by AURA for NASA

Hubble Space Telescope

Max's current projects

• Head of the Research and Instrument Analysis Branch at Space Telescope Science Institute
• AURA Workforce and Diversity Committee member
• Planetary science:
  • Large asteroids and dwarf planets: Vesta, Ceres, Pallas, Dawn mission (hangout)
  • Pluto's moons: Styx (circular, naming), Nix and Hydra, NPR, New Horizons mission
  • Active (comet-like) asteroids: disintegrating, 6-tailed (hangout), Scheila (video), A2
  • Comet Siding Spring inbound and at Mars
  • Comet ISON: data, blog, ASP article, Discovery Channel, WJZ-TV, hangouts 1, 2, 3
  • The Planet Pipeline
• Outreach: Hubble Heritage (data), SM4, IYA, tactile images (video), White House star party
• Hubble observing programs and publications: abstracts, citations, Scholar, preprints