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Astrochemistry Grant
W.M. Keck Foundation awarded $1.2 million to support Manoa research in astrochemistry.
The overall goal of the project is to comprehend the chemical evolution of the Solar System through the study of Kuiper Belt Objects by reproducing the space environment in a specially designed experimental setup. KBOs are small planetary bodies orbiting the sun beyond the planet Neptune, which are considered as the most primitive objects in the Solar System. A study of KBOs is important because they resemble natural time capsules at a frozen stage before life developed on Earth.
“One of the unique aspects of this project is the cross-disciplinary approach involving researchers across the traditional disciplines from the Departments of Chemistry (Ralf Kaiser, John Head), the Institute for Astronomy (David Jewitt, Karen Meech), Department of Physics and Astronomy (Klaus Sattler), and Shiv K. Sharma (Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology) at Hawai'i and John Cooper from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,” says principle investigator Kaiser.
“The W.M. Keck Foundation’s support is vital to this research as it enables us to build an instrument to perform these experiments—an instrument that will be home-built right here at UH Manoa and does not exist anywhere else in the world.”