Erich Karkoschka (born 1955) is a

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ary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the

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. He discovered a satellite of

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, S/1986 U 10 (later named Perdita) on photographs taken by the

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spacecraft. He has assembled a number of movies including: the Huygens landing on the moon

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, the seasonal patterns on Uranus, and a rare triple

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. The Jupiter and Uranus images were released as US postage stamps in 2016. His book, ''The Observer's Sky Atlas'', has been translated into several languages as a resource for those interested in observing the sky. An asteroid, 30786 Karkoschka (1988 QC), is named in his honour.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karkoschka, Erich Living people University of Arizona faculty 1955 births American planetary scientists