# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-j-christensen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:23.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-j-christensen"
name: "Eric J. Christensen"
slug: "eric-j-christensen"
description: "Eric James Christensen is an American astronomer and a discoverer of comets. Since 2023, he works as an Observing Specialist Manager at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Before this, he was a staff scientist with the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), where he was responsible for the survey's near-Earth object operation."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.64864864864865
  historical:           7.203636
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "艾里克·J·克利斯滕森"
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    title: "Eric J. Christensen"
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    title: "Кристенсен, Эрик (астроном)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump