William B. McKinnon

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Fellow of McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

William B. McKinnon is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Fellow of McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research interests include the structure, origin, evolution, geology, and bombardment history of outer planet satellites and dwarf planets, and impact mechanics on rocky and icy bodies. McKinnon is a science team member on NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt. He is also a science team member for the European Space Agency’s upcoming Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission (radar) and NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission (radar and mass spectrometry).