Tony Farnham

My name is Tony Farnham, and I am an astronomer, presently at the University Maryland in College Park. I received my PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1996, for my work modeling the dust tails of comets. From 1996 through 1999, I worked at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, calibrating a new set of narrowband comet filters and studying comets (with an emphasis on Hale-Bopp). From 1999-2002, I was the Harlan J. Smith Planetary postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas, where I expanded my studies to include the physical properties of Centaurs and Kuiper belt objects. Presently, I am here at the University of Maryland, working with the Planetary Data System and the Deep Impact project.

General interests:

Physical properties of comets, Centaurs and KBOs

Solar System Formation

Celestial Mechanics

Planetary Rings

A list of Recent Publications