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Born | 1962 |
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Website | https://www.philipmetzger.com/ |
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Philip T. Metzger is an American planetary physicist with the Florida Space Institute.[1] In 2012 he co-founded NASA's Swamp Works,[2] and in May 2018 he was honoured with the Outstanding Technical Contribution Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers,[3] later that year he worked with Honeybee Robotics to develop the WINE spacecraft prototype.[4] Metzger disagrees with the IAU definition of a planet.[5]
A 4.6 km (2.9 mi) wide main-belt asteroid discovered on June 1, 2000 at the Anderson Mesa Station has been named after Metzger: 36329 Philmetzger.[6]