UT aerospace engineering professor awarded 'genius grant' for work tracking objects orbiting Earth

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An aerospace engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin was awarded an honor called the "genius grant."UT Austin said astrodynamicist and space environmentalist Moriba Jah was one of 25 people to be chosen for the five-year MacArthur Fellowship.Armageddon time! How NASA plans to defend Earth from an asteroidThe university explained the fellowship invests in a person's originality, insight and potential, and recipients are nominated based on talent and dedic