Sébastien Charnoz
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Dr. Sébastien Charnoz is a planetary scientist who studies planetary dynamics in the Université Paris 7, in Paris . He also works for the CEA (Center for Atomic Energy) in France. His work covers problems relating to collisional-dynamics in the Solar System such as : physics of planetary rings and Solar System formation. He is specialised in numerical simulations. With André Brahic (Professor at Université Paris 7) he is involved in the imaging team of the CASSINI mission, led by Carolyn Porco. By using a numerical code he wrote for an automatic satellite-detection (among the hundreds of images of the ISS camera system), and with the help of the ISS Imaging Team, he first pointed out the two smallest known moons of the Saturn's system in 2004 : Methone and Pallene.
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- Homepage of Sébastien Charnoz
- NASA press release describing the discovery of the two satellites methone and Pallene
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