Bonnie J. Buratti (born 1952) is an American planetary scientist in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she leads the Comets, Asteroids, and Satellites Group.
[1] Her research involves the composition and physical properties of planetary surfaces,[2] and volatile transport in the outer solar system.
[citation needed] Buratti has worked on the Voyager Program, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft (for which she served as Co-Investigator on the VIMS instrument), and the New Horizons space probe.
[5] In 2014 she was elected Chair of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
[6] In November 2015, Buratti was named the NASA Project Scientist for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.