Asteroid (20597) Pickersgill

Annemarie Pickersgill (b. 1987) is a Canadian planetary scientist who graduated from Western University. At the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, investigating the effects of hypervelocity impact cratering processes, they provided a revised age for the Chicxulub "dinosaur killing" impact crater, showing hydrothermal systems were much longer lived than previously thought.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, volume 6, number 10, page 29

Author: 
pjedicke@yahoo.com
Name: 
Pickersgill
Number: 
20597
Designation: 
1999 RA192
Disc. Date: 
1999-09-11
Discoverer: 
LINEAR
Disc. Place: 
Socorro / 704