David L. Rabinowitz

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David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University studying the Kuiper belt and the outer solar system.

Mr. Rabinowitz works with high resolution cameras as part of the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team. In collaboration with Michael E. Brown and Chad Trujillo, he has discovered trans-Neptunian objects, among them:

• 90377 Sedna - possibly the first known inner Oort cloud object.
• 90482 Orcus
• Eris - the dwarf planet larger than Pluto.
• (136108) 2003 EL₆₁
• (136472) 2005 FY₉

Along with the Spacewatch Team, then headed by Tom Gehrels at the University of Arizona, he co-discovered one other astronomical object:

• 5145 Pholus