Simon Porter Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for Simon Porter, based on 3 World History Database records associated with United States of America.

3 records2015–20163 events0 places

Chronological biography

2015

First New Horizons JR1 Observations2 November 2015

Science / Astronomy

New Horizons obtains its first distant spacecraft observations of Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1.

2016

1994 JR1 Rotation Period2016

Science / Astronomy

New Horizons observations determine that Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1 rotates roughly once every five and a half hours.

Closest Images of 1994 JR17 April 2016

Science / Astronomy

New Horizons images 1994 JR1 from about 111 million kilometres away, then the closest spacecraft observations of a small Kuiper Belt object.

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.