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American astronomer

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Marc William Buie is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets who works at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the Space Science Department.

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Buie in 1995 at the Lowell ObservatoryBuie in 1995 at the Lowell ObservatoryBuie in July 2017 leading the occultation campaign to observe 486958 Arrokoth before the New Horizons fly-by of the Kuiper belt object in January 2019.Buie in July 2017 leading the occultation campaign to observe 486958 Arrokoth before the New Horizons fly-by of the Kuiper belt object in January 2019.

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Marc William Buie is an American astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets who works at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the Space Science Department. Formerly he worked at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and was the Sentinel Space Telescope Mission Scientist for the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impact events.

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Born 1958 · age 68
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