# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erich-karkoschka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:46:42.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erich-karkoschka"
name: "Erich Karkoschka"
slug: "erich-karkoschka"
description: "Erich Karkoschka is a planetary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona. He discovered a satellite of Uranus, S/1986 U 10 on photographs taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. He has assembled a number of movies including: the Huygens landing on the moon Titan, the seasonal patterns on Uranus, and a rare triple eclipse on Jupiter. The Jupiter and Uranus images were released as US postage stamps in 2016."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.35
  momentum:             7.142857142857143
  historical:           9.20414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Еріх Каркошка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "اريك كاركوشكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Karkoschka"
    title: "Erich Karkoschka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85"
    title: "Каркошка, Эрих"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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