Thunder Bay, located on the shores of Lake Superior, is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Formed in 1970 as the amalgamation of two cities, Thunder Bay is known as “the Lakehead” because it is Canada’s westernmost port on the Great Lakes and the end of Great Lakes Navigation.

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Martha Farkas (b. 1959) is one of Canada’s most experienced amateur astronomers.
Farkas prefers traditional visual observing of solar system and deep sky objects using small telescopes. She is an active participant in Ottawa area astronomy events and an enthusiastic promoter of the Adirondack Astronomy Retreat.

Orbit type: Main Belt 

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Catherine Johnson (b. 1967) is a planetary geophysicist and a Co-Investigator for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission and for the InSight mission to Mars. She was a Participating Scientist on the MESSENGER mission to Mercury and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

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Jim Freemantle (b. 1958) is the Project Manager for the OLA Science Team on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. He was also the Project Manager for the Canadian MET Sensor on board the Phoenix Mars Lander. He has had a long career using remote sensing to monitor environmental change.

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Cameron S. Dickinson (b. 1974) is the Technical Lead for the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter. Previously, Cameron was the Operations Lead for the Phoenix Mars Lander Meteorological Station.

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Imran Aslam (b. 1977) is the electronics lead for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission’s Laser Altimeter at MDA. Prior to this, he was the Lead for the Mars Curiosity Rover’s Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, and Electronics Lead for the Metrology sensors on the Phoenix Mars Lander.

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