# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/duncan-steel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:23:34.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/duncan-steel"
name: "Duncan Steel"
slug: "duncan-steel"
description: "Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist. He has discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, and has worked at the Xerra Earth Observation Institute in Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand. He was formerly on the staff of the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. Steel completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in 1984 with a thesis on the orbital characteristics of meteoroids."
tagline: "British astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.203636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.duncansteel.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Steel"
    title: "Duncan Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دونكان ستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دانكان ستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_I._Steel"
    title: "Duncan I. Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Steel"
    title: "Duncan Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_I._Steel"
    title: "Duncan I. Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_I._Steel"
    title: "Duncan I. Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Steel"
    title: "Duncan Steel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3716242"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump