Steven J. Ostro
American scientist
Born on: March 9, 1946Died on: December 15, 2008
Aged: 62 years 281 days (753 months)
Nationality: United States
Birth Sign: Pisces
Steven Jeffrey Ostro was an American scientist specializing in radar astronomy. He worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ostro led radar observations of numerous asteroids, as well as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and Mars and its satellites.
As of May 2008, Ostro and his collaborators had detected 222 near-Earth asteroids, including 130 potentially hazardous objects and 24 binaries, and 118 main belt objects with radar.
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