#SpaceSunday with Carolyn Shoemaker
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Carolyn Shoemaker is an astronomer who holds the record for the most comet discoveries, after finding more than 800 asteroids and 32 comets.
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Although Carolyn once believed Astronomy was “relegated to only old men in white beards, smoking pipes, and staring at the sky,” her career in planetary astronomy has comprised of long and tedious hours working with stereoscopes. Carolyn would later go on to give inspirational speeches to individuals, both in her field and not.