Astrobiologist Dr. Danny Glavin looks for the building blocks of life in extraterrestrial materials, including meteorites, asteroids, comets and other interplanetary dust particles.
In recognition of Dr. Glavin’s meteorite research, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him, asteroid (24480) Glavin. He was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States (2003), the Meteoritical Society’s Nier Prize (2010), the NASA Goddard Internal Research and Development Innovator of the Year Award (2007), and the NASA Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Science (2009 and 2014).