Fran Bagenal

Bagenal has worked on a number of planetary science missions including the Voyager Plasma Science (PLS) experiment, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons mission to Pluto, and the Juno mission to Jupiter.[1] Usually in her work on different missions, she is a member of the science team as a plasma scientist.[2] Bagenal chaired NASA's Outer Planet Assessment Group that provides input from the scientific community on exploration of the outer Solar System.[3] She appeared in The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program, and in multiple television documentaries including the NOVA 2019 miniseries The Planets.[4]

• Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.[5]
• Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [6]
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021 [7]
• The outer main-belt asteroid 10020 Bagenal, discovered by astronomer Schelte J. Bus at Palomar Observatory in 1979, was named in her honor.[8] The official naming citation was published on 13 April 2017 (M.P.C. 103974).[9]

• Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; McKinnon, William B. (2007). Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere. Cambridge University Press. p. 732. ISBN 978-0-5218-1808-7.
• Bagenal, Fran; Keiling, Andreas; Donovan, Eric; Karlsson, Tomas (2012). Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes: Earth and Other Planets. American Geophysical Union. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-8759-0487-0.

• NASA Interview with Fran Bagenal about New Horizons
• Astrobiology Magazine, October 17, 2013, “From Plasma Science to Dwarf Planets: Fran Bagenal”
• Women in Planetary Science interview with Bagenal
• Fran Bagenal publications indexed by Google Scholar