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Member Since 1979
William B B. McKinnon
Professor, Washington University in St Louis
Professional Experience
Washington University in St Louis
Professor
1982 - Present
Education
California Institute of Technology
Doctorate
1981
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For exceptional contributions to our understanding of the geophysics of outer solar system bodies
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Current Roles
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Planetary Sciences Awards Committee
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Planetary Sciences Fellows Committee
Publications
Thin Ice Lithospheres and High Heat Flows on Europa From Large Impact Structure Ring‐Graben
Craters are probes of planetary surface and interior properties. Here we measure depths, widths, and spacing of circumferential ring‐graben s...
December 08, 2023
Viscous Relaxation of Oort and Edgeworth Craters on Pluto: P...
August 30, 2023
Layering by Double‐Diffusive Convection in the Subsurface Oc...
November 29, 2022
AGU Abstracts
True Polar Wander on Ganymede – A Solution to the Apex-Antapex Cratering Conundrum and Possible Explanation for Ganymede’s Subjovian Dome
ICE AND OCEAN WORLDS: GEOLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY, CHEMISTRY, AND HABITABILITY I POSTER
planetary sciences | 15 december 2023
William B. McKinnon, Michael T. Bland, Paul Schenk
The observed leading-trailing hemisphere asymmetry in impact crater density on Ganymede is far weaker than that predicted by heliocentric crater bomba...
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Constraints on Europa’s Ice Shell Structure and Evolution through Time from the Tyre and Callanish Multiring Impacts
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION II POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
William B. McKinnon, Kelsi N. Singer, Paul Schenk
The two largest impact structures on Europa, Tyre and Callanish, possess compact systems of circumferential graben-like troughs, essentially miniature...
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Investigating Europa’s Habitability with Europa Clipper
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION IV ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Steve Vance, Kathleen L Craft, Everett Shock, Brit...
The overarching goal of NASAs Europa Clipper mission is to explore Europa and investigate its habitability. Performing such an assessment is challengi...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2027
Member
Planetary Sciences Awards Committee
2024 - 2025
Member
Planetary Sciences Fellows Committee
2013 - 2014
President
Planetary Sciences Executive Committee
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