Astrochemistry Laboratory
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Lucy F. Lim
Astrochemist, Astrochemistry Laboratory
NASA/GSFC, Code 691 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-1546 Email: Lucy Lim |
Current Position
- Astrochemist, Astrochemistry Laboratory
Education
Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Ph. D., Astronomy, January 2005
Dissertation Title: Asteroid Spectroscopy,
I. A Thermal Infrared Survey of Asteroids.
II. X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of 433 Eros.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Science, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, June 1998.
Minors in Physics and Literature
Awards and Fellowships
Selected Publications
2005 Lim, L. F. and McConnochie, T. H. andBell, J. F. and Hayward, T. L. "Thermal infrared (8-13 µm) spectra of 29 asteroids: the Cornell Mid-Infrared Asteroid Spectroscopy (MIDAS) Survey." Icarus173, 385-408.
2005 Lim, L. F., Nittler, L. R., Starr, R. D., and McClanahan, T. P. "Element Composition of 433 Eros: New Calibration of the NEAR-Shoemaker XRS Data." LPSC 36, abstract 2031.
2003 Lim, L. F., Nittler, L. R., McCoy, T. J., and Starr, R. D. "A Search for Manganese and Chromium Abundances in NEAR-Shoemaked X-ray Spectra of 433 Eros." AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts, 35.
2002 Lim, L. F., Bell, J. F., McConnochie, T. H., Clark, B. E., and Hayward, T. L. "The Cornell Mid-Infrared Asteroid Spectroscopy (MIDAS) Survey: Results from 2001." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 34.
2001 Nittler, L. R., Starr, R. D., Lim, L., McCoy, T. J., Burbine, T. H., Reedy, R. C., Trombka, J. I., Gorenstein, P., Squyres, S. W., Boynton, W. V., McClanahan, T. P. Bhangoo, J. S., Clark, P. E., Murphy, M. E., Killen, R. "X-ray fluorescence measurements of the surface elemental composition of asteroid 433 Eros." Meteoritics and Planetary Science 36, p. 1673.
2001 Scharringhausen, B. R., Lim, L., Nicholson, P. D., Matthews, K., and McGregor, P. J. "Ground-Based Observations of the 10 August 1995 Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing." Icarus 154, p. 287.
2001 Trombka, J. I., et al. "The NEAR-Shoemaker x-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer experiment: Overview and lessons learned. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 36, 1605.
