Colin Trevor Pillinger, CBE FRS FRAS FRGS (9 May 1943 – 7 May 2014) was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at Open University in Milton Keynes, he was also the principal investigator for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and worked on a group of Martian meteorites.
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9 May 1943 Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, England
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Died |
7 May 2014 (aged 70) Cambridge, UK
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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