“If there really is a Planet X, finding it would force to revise the models of the creation and evolution of the Solar System that didn’t include it”

Interview with Noemí Pinilla

Researcher at the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, Noemí Pinilla has a very close relationship with the IAC. She studied astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and after obtaining her doctorate she made the jump across the Atlantic to the NASA Ames Research Center as a postdoc. She is at the IAC, under the Severo Ochoa Visitors Program, to collaborate in the preparation of a spectroscopic catalogue of asteroids, and studying the ices and the surfaces of the dwarf planets of the Solar System. >> Read the interview

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