# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-p-binzel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:31:23.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-p-binzel"
name: "Richard P. Binzel"
slug: "richard-p-binzel"
description: "Richard \"Rick\" P. Binzel is an American astronomer and professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a discoverer of minor planets, photometrist and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. He is also a frequent trip leader for the MIT Alumni Association."
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birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump