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Gene Shoemaker - 2007 Grant Winners - 2005 Grant Winners

Gene Shoemaker

Click to enlarge > Gene Shoemaker at his retirement party in 1993. Credit: USGS

Click to enlarge > Gene Shoemaker examines the ejecta blanket at the Wabar meteorite impact site in the Ar Rub Al Khali (Empty Quarter) of Saudi Arabia in 1995. Credit: USGS/Jeff Wynn

2009 Grant Winners

Click to enlarge > Russ Durkee

Click to enlarge > Gary Hug

Click to enlarge > Robert Holmes

2007 Grant Winners

Click to enlarge > Eric Allen Credit: Patrick Beauchamp

Click to enlarge > Robert Holmes

Click to enlarge > Jean-Claude Pelle Winner of a 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grant.

Click to enlarge > Don Pray

Click to enlarge > Brian Warner Credit: Brian D. Warner / Palmer Divide Observatory

Click to enlarge > Quanzhi Ye

Click to enlarge > The observing team of the Associazione Friulana di Astronomia e Meteorologia From left to right: Vincenzo Santini, Giovanni Sostero, Antonio Lepardo, Ernesto Guido, Virgilio Gonano and Luca Donato.

2005 Grant Winners

Click to enlarge > Minor Planet Research, Inc.	Click to enlarge > Peter Birtwhistle	Click to enlarge > David Higgins	Click to enlarge > Gianluca Masi
Click to enlarge > Erich Meyer