# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-a-hearn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:20:57.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-a-hearn"
name: "Michael A'Hearn"
slug: "michael-a-hearn"
description: "Michael Francis A'Hearn was an American planetary scientist and astronomy professor at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He was the principal investigator for NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI mission, which performed the first impact of a comet."
tagline: "American astronomer and professor (1940-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bio-mahearn.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1940-11-17"
deathDate: "2017-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.37
  momentum:             2.630316248636859
  historical:           6.338481333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A'Hearn"
    title: "Michael A'Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A'Hearn"
    title: "Michael A'Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A'Hearn"
    title: "Michael A'Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A%E2%80%99Hearn"
    title: "Michael A’Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A'Hearn"
    title: "Michael A'Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A'Hearn"
    title: "Michael A'Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Ахерн, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2256711"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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