Derrick Pitts

Derrick Pitts

Derrick Pitts is an American astronomer and science communicator. Pitts studied at St. Lawrence University and has been employed at the Franklin Institute since 1978 where he is chief astronomer and director of the institute's Fels Planetarium.

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  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1955-01-22
  • Place of Birth : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Derrick Pitts Movies

  • 2021
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    Looking for Life on Mars

    Looking for Life on Mars

    7.3 2021 HD

    NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a rocky, ancient river delta. The rover will stow...

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  • 2019
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    Pluto and Beyond

    Pluto and Beyond

    8.2 2019 HD

    Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the...

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  • 2017
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    Miniverse

    Miniverse

    5 2017 HD

    What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the continental United States and place the planets...

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  • 2020
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    Touching the Asteroid

    Touching the Asteroid

    6 2020 HD

    Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists can study it to learn about the planet's origins.

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  • 2023
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    UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

    UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

    6.2 2023 HD

    The truth behind the U.S. government's secret Pentagon program on UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, otherwise known as UFOs, is exposed.

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