awards fields birth_date article_title name alma_mater
fras space science 1955 duncan steel
 duncan i. steel university science and technology university of canterbury of london queen mary college imperial college of
duncan steel

duncan i. steel fras -lrb- born 1955 -rrb- , is a british scientist born in midsomer norton , somerset .
currently he lives in wellington , new zealand , but holds visiting positions as a professor of astrobiology at the university of buckingham in england ; as a space scientist at nasa-ames research center in california ; and as an astronomer at armagh observatory in northern ireland .
duncan is a space science authority who has worked with nasa to assess the threat of comet and asteroid collisions and investigate technologies to avert such impacts .
he is also the author of four popular-level science books on space , and regularly writes for the guardian and various other newspapers and magazines .
he was the discoverer of the main-belt asteroid 9767 midsomer norton , plus another eleven minor planets .
