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Carl Sagan Medal, the Glossary

The Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science is an award established by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society to recognize and honor outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public.^[1]

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Adam Frank

Adam Frank (born 1962) is an American physicist, astronomer, and writer.

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American Astronomical Society

The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC.

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André Brahic

André Fernand Brahic (30 November 1942 – 15 May 2016) was a French astrophysicist.

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Bonnie Buratti

Bonnie J. Buratti (born 1952) is an American planetary scientist in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she leads the Comets, Asteroids, and Satellites Group.

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Caleb Scharf

Caleb Asa Scharf is a British-American astronomer and popular science author.

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Carolyn Porco

Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.

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Carrie Nugent

Carrie Nugent (born 1984) is an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science at Olin College.

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Clark Chapman

Clark R. Chapman is a senior scientist and astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute's Boulder, Colorado, Department of Space Studies.

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David Grinspoon

David H. Grinspoon (born 1959) is an American astrobiologist.

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David Morrison (astrophysicist)

David Morrison (born June 26, 1940) is an American astronomer, a senior scientist at the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

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Division for Planetary Sciences

The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) is a division within the American Astronomical Society (AAS) devoted to Solar System research.

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Guy Consolmagno

Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ (born September 19, 1952), is an American research astronomer, physicist, religious brother, director of the Vatican Observatory, and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.

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Heidi Hammel

Heidi B. Hammel (born March 14, 1960) is a planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus.

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Henry Throop

Henry B. Throop (born 1972), is an American astronomer and planetary scientist who specializes in the dynamics of rings and dust in the outer solar system.

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James F. Bell III

James F. Bell III (born July 23, 1965) is a professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, specializing in the study of planetary geology, geochemistry and mineralogy using data obtained from telescopes and from various spacecraft missions.

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List of astronomy awards

This list of astronomy awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to astronomy. Carl Sagan Medal and list of astronomy awards are astronomy prizes.

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Megan Schwamb

Megan E. Schwamb (born 1984) is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast.

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Nicolle Zellner

Nicolle Elisabeth Brigitte Zellner is an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and astrobiologist whose research concerns impact events on the Moon, especially during the Late Heavy Bombardment, the evidence for these impacts left in lunar glass, and the effects of impacts on the development of life on Earth.

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Patrick Michel

Patrick Michel (born 25 February 1970 in Saint-Tropez, France) is a French planetary scientist, Senior Researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), leader of the team TOP (Theories and Observations in Planetology) of the CNRS and Université Côte d'Azur Lagrange Laboratory at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice (France), and also a Global Fellow of the University of Tokyo.

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Planetary science

Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan_Medal