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Planetary astrobiologist
Professor Abel Méndez is a planetary astrobiologist and Director, at the
University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo . His research focuses on the habitability of potentially habitable
exoplanets . Méndez is also a NASA MIRS Fellow with research experience at NASA, and the
Arecibo Observatory .
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He is best known for being one of the scientists who developed the
Earth Similarity Index , a proposed characterization of how similar a
planetary-mass object or
natural satellite is to
Earth .
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References
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"Las "misteriosas señales" que astrónomos de Puerto Rico captaron provenientes de Ross 128, una estrella cercana a la Tierra" . BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
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"Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL @ UPR Arecibo - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo" . phl.upr.edu . Retrieved 2020-12-13 .
^ Schulze-Makuch, Dirk; Méndez, Abel; Fairén, Alberto G.; von Paris, Philip; Turse, Carol; Boyer, Grayson; Davila, Alfonso F.; António, Marina Resendes De Sousa; Catling, David; Irwin, Louis N. (2011).
"A Two-Tiered Approach to Assessing the Habitability of Exoplanets" . Astrobiology . 11 (10): 1041–1052.
Bibcode :
2011AsBio..11.1041S .
doi :
10.1089/ast.2010.0592 .
ISSN
1531-1074 .
PMID
22017274 .