Renu Malhotra

Renu Malhotra (born 1961) is an American planetary scientist from India, known for using the orbital resonance between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the giant planets and to predict the existence of Plutinos in resonance with Neptune. The asteroid 6698 Malhotra was named for her on 14 December 1997 . She attended the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, graduating with an M.S. degree in Physics in 1983. Malhotra then attended Cornell University, where she was introduced to non-linear dynamics by Mitchell Feigenbaum. Malhotra is currently a professor at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

Awards and honors 1997 Harold C. Urey Prize 2010 Galileo Circle Fellow, University of Arizona 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2015 National Academy of Sciences 2016 Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor 2016 Regents' Professor, University of Arizona