also at Caltech. He also sits on the Board of Adjudicators for the Shaw Prize, and the selection committee for Astronomy Prizes.

Scientific accomplishments

Goldreich has made a wide range of significant contributions to theoretical astrophysics and planetary sciences. In 1966 Goldreich published a classic paper on the evolution of the Moon's orbit and on the orbits of other moons in the Solar System. He showed that for each planet there is a certain

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