Looking ahead... New Horizons is racing away from the Sun at about a million miles a day to explore the planet Pluto and its satellite system in 2015, and hopefully one or more additional objects in the Kuiper Belt. Work continues on the Discovery Channel Telescope, a new 4.3 meter telescope nearing completion in Northern Arizona.
2010 – I'm working on binaries in the Kuiper belt as well as laboratory studies of the spectral properties of cryogenic ices. Also doing editorial work for Icarus. This year New Horizons hits the half-way mark on its way to the Pluto system.
2009 – We've been spectroscopically monitoring Neptune's moon Triton for many years to see where its different types of ices are, and how they're changing over time. Also continuing work on transneptunian objects, including spectral properties, orbits and colors of binary systems, and albedos of "cold" classical objects (this last paper was led by Dr. Melissa Brucker, the first student to graduate from Lowell Observatory's pre-doctoral program).
2008 – Did lots of work on transneptunian binary and multiple systems including Typhon and Echidna and the Pluto system. Also spectroscopy of small icy planets, including Makemake, Eris, and Pluto. Bonny did linguistic field work in southern Africa, supported by an NSF grant.