Asteroid 37349 named Lynnaequick in her honor

Quick has dedicated her career to investigating the inner workings of planets and moons. Unlike her colleagues studying Earth, Quick can’t just jet off to investigate these faraway locales for her research. Instead, she combines satellite data, an understanding of Earthly geological processes, and the power of mathematics to imagine how other worlds might behave, modeling volcanic processes. Her research has taken her from volcanic plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to the surface of the crater-laden dwarf planet Ceres and possible ocean worlds outside the bounds of our solar system.

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Astronomy - Planetary Science

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