. Tom Burbine's Resume

Thomas H. Burbine Jr.

54-312

MIT

Cambridge, MA 02139

Home: (617) 225-9855

Work: (617) 253-1946

thb@astron.mit.edu

Research Interests:

Asteroid taxonomy

Meteorite analogs for asteroids

Education:

Ph.D. student (September, 1993 to present) in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary

Sciences (EAPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

Advisor: Rick Binzel

M.S. (December, 1991) in Geology and Planetary Science, Univ. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Thesis titled "Principal component analysis of asteroid and

meteorite spectra from 0.3 to 2.5 um" Advisor: Bruce Hapke

B.S. (May, 1988) in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY

Minors in Astrophysics and History & Political Science

Research Experience

Research assistant (September, 1995 to present) for Rick Binzel, EAPS, MIT

Analyzed asteroid and meteorite spectra

Assisted in taking near-infrared telescopic observations of asteroids at the

Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Research assistant (September, 1993 to August, 1995) for Roger Burns, EAPS, MIT

Ran Mossbauer analyses of meteorite samples

Research assistant (June, 1992 to August, 1993) for Dale Graessle, High- Energy Astrophysics,

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), Cambridge, MA

Calculated optical constants for materials that may be used to

coat the mirrors for the AXAF satellite

Assisted in running the X-ray reflectance measurements at the National

Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Research assistant (Spring and Summer, 1991) for Michael Gaffey,

Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, RPI

Analyzed asteroid reflectance spectra so approximate surface mineralogies could be

determined

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant (Fall, 1997) for "Observational Techniques of Optical Astronomy" at MIT

Took out observing laboratory section,

Graded problem sets

Teaching assistant (Fall, 1995; Fall, 1996) for "The Solar System" at MIT

Taught lectures when professor was absent,

Corrected problem sets and exams

Teaching assistant (Spring and Summer, 1991) for "Physical Geology " at the Univ. Pittsburgh

Taught recitations

Tutor at Athletic Support Services (Fall, 1990; Spring and Fall, 1991), Univ. Pittsburgh

Tutored in introductory courses in Physics and Astronomy

Honors

Asteroid 5159 Burbine

Editor's Letter of Commendation for excellent reviews (1998) Icarus 134, 185.

Honorable Mention, 1995 Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geosciences

Student Paper Award competition for poster presentation

Activities

Chairperson, Ashdown House, MIT (May, 1994 to May, 1996)

Invited Talks

"Composition of Small Main-Belt Asteroids," Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark, July, 1996

Publications
(articles)

Burbine T. H. (1997) Could G-class asteroids be the parent bodies of the CM chondrites?" Meteoritics & Planetary Science 33.253-258.

Burbine T. H., Meibom A. and Binzel R. P. (1996) Mantle material in the main belt: Battered to bits? Meteoritics & Planetary Science 31, 607-620. (Profiled in Nature (1997) 385, 293-295.)

Binzel R. P., Bus. S. J., Burbine T. H. and Sunshine J. M. (1996) Spectral properties of near-Earth asteroids: Evidence for sources of ordinary chondrite meteorites. Science 273 , 946-948.

Binzel R. P., Burbine T. H. and Bus. S. J. (1996) Groundbased reconnaissance of asteroid 253 Mathilde: Visible wavelength spectrum and meteorite comparison. Icarus 119, 447-449.

Binzel R. P., Bus. S. J., Sunshine J., Burbine T. H., Neely A. W. and Brown R. W. (1995) Rotationally resolved spectra of asteroid 16 Psyche. Icarus 117, 443-445.

Burns R. G., Burbine T. H., Fisher D. S. and Binzel R. P. (1995) Weathering in Antarctic H and CR chondrites: Quantitative analysis through Mossbauer spectroscopy. Meteoritics 30, 625-633.

Xu S., Binzel R. P., Burbine T. H. and Bus S. J. (1995) Small main- belt asteroid spectroscopic survey: Initial results. Icarus 115, 1-35.

Gaffey M. J., Bell J. F., Brown R. H., Burbine T. H., Piatek J., Reed K. L. and Chaky D. A. (1993) Mineralogic variations within the S-type asteroid class. Icarus 106, 573-602.

Gaffey, M. J., Burbine, T. H. and Binzel, R. P. (1993) Asteroid spectroscopy: Progress and perspectives. Meteoritics. 28, 161-187.

Burbine T. H., Gaffey M. J. and Bell J. F. (1992) S-asteroids 387 Aquitania and 980 Anacostia: Possible fragments of the breakup of a spinel-bearing parent body with CO3/CV3 affinities. Meteoritics. 27, 424- 434.

(proceedings)

Burbine T. H. and Binzel, R. P. (1994) Asteroid spectroscopy and taxonomy. Asteroids, Comets and Meteors 1993 (Eds. A. Milani, M. Di Martino and A. Cellino), 255-270.

Blake R. L., Davis J. C., Graessle D. E., Burbine T. H. and Gullikson E. M. (1994) Optical constants and scattering factors from reflectivity measurements: 50 eV to 10 keV. Resonant Anomalous X-Ray Scattering (Eds. G. Materlik, C. J. Sparks and K. Fischer), 79-90.

Graessle D. E., Burbine T. H., Fitch J. J., Podgorski W. A., Juda J.Z., Elsner R. F., O'Dell S. L. and Reynolds J. M. (1994) Molecular contamination study of iridium-coated x-ray mirrors. Advances in Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV/FUV Optics (Eds. R. B. Hoover and A. B. C. Walker, Jr.), Proc. SPIE, 2279, 12-26.

Blake R. L., Davis J. C., Burbine T. H., Graessle D. E. and Gullikson E. M. (1993) Optical constants from mirror reflectivities measured at synchrotrons. Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics for Astronomy and Projection Lithography (Eds. R. B. Hoover and A. B. C. Walker, Jr.), Proc. SPIE, 1742, 219-222.

Graessle D. E., Burbine T. H., Cobuzzi J. C., Kellogg E. M., Schwartz D. A., Blake R. L. and Gong P. P. (1993) Reflectance calibrations of AXAF mirror samples at absorption edges using synchrotron radiation. Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics for Astronomy and Projection Lithography (Eds. Richard B. Hoover and Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr.), Proc. SPIE, 1742, 203-218.

(book reviews)

The Planet Observer's Handbook (1994) by F. W. Price. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 33, 1197.

Lewis J. S. (1996) Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets. Meteoritics (1997) 32.

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 22 (1994) and Vol. 23 (1995). Meteoritics (1995) 30, 799-800.

(abstracts)

Burbine T. H., Cloutis E. A., Bus S. J., Meibom A. and Binzel R. P. (1998) The detection of troilite (FeS) on the surfaces of E-class asteroids (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 30, 1025-1026.

Bus S. J., Binzel R. P. and Burbine T. H. (1998) A feature-based taxonomy derived from 1190 SMASSII CCD spectra (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 30, 1025.

Binzel R. P., Bus S. J. and Burbine T. H. (1998) Relating S-Asteroids and ordinary chondrite meteorites: The new big picture (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 30, 1041.

Binzel R. P., Bus S., and Burbine T. H. (1997) Compositional Distribution of Near-Earth Asteroids: New Results for 80 Objects. (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 29, 964.

Burbine T. H. and Binzel R. P. (1997) SMASSIR Measurements of Vesta Chips: Evidence for Weathering? (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 29, 964.

Bus S. J., Binzel R. P., and Burbine T. H. (1997) Spectral Reflectance Properties of Mars-Crossing Asteroids (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 29, 964.

Sunshine J. M., Binzel R. P., Burbine T. H., and Bus S. J. (1997) Diversity in the Iron Content of Olivine Rich Asteroids as Revealed by MGM Analyses of New SMASSIR Spectra (abstract). Bull. A. Astron. Soc. 29, 964.

Burbine T. H., Binzel R. P. and Bus S. J. (1997) SMASS and SMASSIR: Visible and near-infrared spectral studies of main- belt and near-Earth asteroids (abstract). Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVIII, 179-180.

Binzel R. P., Bus S. J., Burbine T. H. and Sunshine J. M. (1996) A Spectroscopic Survey of Near-Earth Asteroids: Evidence for an S-Asteroid Ordinary Chondrite Link (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 28, 1099.

Bus S. J., Binzel R. P. and Burbine T. H. (1996) Asteroid Families: Myth or Reality? (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 28, 1097.

Burbine T. H., Binzel R. P., Bus. S. J. and Sunshine J. M. (1996) Spectroscopy of near-Earth asteroids: New results (abstract). Meteoritics and Planetary Science (supplement), A24.

Burbine T. H., Meibom A. and Binzel R. P. (1996) Metal-free olivine asteroids: Battered to bits? (abstract) Cospar Colloquium 10: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1996, 84.

S. J. Bus, Binzel R. P. and Burbine T. H. (1996) Asteroid families between 2.7 and 2.82 AU: Spectral reflectance properties (abstract). Cospar Colloquium 10: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1996, 5.

Bus, S. J., Binzel R. P. and Burbine T. H. (1995) The Gefion asteroid family (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 27, 1057.

Burbine T. H. and Binzel R. P. (1995) Could G-asteroids be the parent bodies of the CM chondrites? (abstract). Meteoritics 30, 494.

Burbine T. H., Burns R. G. Fisher D. S. and Binzel R. P. (1995) Analysis of weathering in Antarctic H5 and CR chondrites using Mossbauer spectroscopy (abstract). Lunar Planet. Sci. XXVI, 191-192.

Xu S., Binzel R. P., Burbine T. H., Bus S. J. and Sunshine J. (1994) Small main-belt asteroid spectroscopic survey: Initial results (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 1171.

Burbine, T. H. (1994) Where are the olivine asteroids in the main belt? (abstract). Meteoritics 29, 453.

Burbine T. H. and Burns R. G. (1994) Questions concerning the oxidation of ferrous iron in carbonaceous chondrites (abstract). Lunar Planet. Sci. XXV, 199-200.

Xu, S., Binzel R. P., Burbine T. H. and Bus S. J. (1993) Small main- belt asteroid spectroscopic survey (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. 25, 1135.

Burbine T. H. and Bell J. F. (1993) Asteroid taxonomy: Problems and proposed solutions (abstract). IAU Symposium 160: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993, 49.

Burbine T. H. and Bell J. F. (1993) How diverse is the asteroid belt (abstract)? Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIV, 223-224.

Gaffey M. J., Bell J. F., Brown R. H., Burbine T. H., Piatek J., Reed K. L. and Chaky D. A. (1993) Spectral evidence of size dependent space weathering processes on asteroid surfaces (abstract). Lunar Planet. Sci. XXIV, 515-516.

Burbine T. H., Gaffey M. J. and Bell J. F. (1991) S asteroids 387 Aquitania and 980 Anacostia: Possible fragments of the breakup of a spinel-rich parent body (abstract). Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 23, 1142.

Burbine T. H. and Bell J. F. (1991) Principal component analysis of asteroid spectra using ECAS and 52-color data (abstract). Lunar Planet. Sci. XXII, 155-156.

Burbine T. H., Gaffey M. J. and Bell J. F. (1990) Principal component analysis of asteroid and meteorite spectra from 0.3 to 2.5痠 (abstract).Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 22, 1124.

Gaffey M. J., Bell J. F., Brown R. H., Burbine T., Piatek J. and Reed K. L. (1990) Evolutionary implications of compositional variations within the S-type and A-type asteroid populations (abstract). Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 22, 1114.

Gaffey M. J., Bell J. F., Brown R. H. and Burbine T. (1990) Mineralogical variations within the S-asteroid population (abstract). Lunar Planet. Sci. XXI, 399-400.