Derrick Pitts
Birthday: 1955-01-22
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Derrick Pitts is an American astronomer and science communicator. Pitts studied at St. Lawrence University and has been employed at the Franklin Institute since 1978 where he is chief astronomer and director of the institute's Fels Planetarium.
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Looking for Life on Mars
NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a roc...
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Pluto and Beyond
Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most dis...
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Miniverse
What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the...
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Touching the Asteroid
Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists c...
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