Talk:Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay/UWRCWikiLab draft

Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is an American astronomer. She was awarded the Uruy Prize in 2009. Her work on shock-induced ice melting helped to show that liquid water is the most erosive fluid currently at work on the surface of Mars.

As of 2015, she is a Professor at UC Davis and Visiting Professor at Harvard, where she directs the Shock Compression Laboratory. One of the tools at the laboratory is a 40 mm cannon. The shock lab is moving to Davis at the end of 2015. Her group has an experiment planned for the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratory to study shock-induced vaporization.

Stewart-Mukhopadhyay proposed a version of the giant impact hypothesis in which an oblate Earth was slowed from a 2.3-hour long day, and allowed to become spherical, by an impact with the planet Theia.