Richard J. Terrile

Template:Short description Richard John Terrile (born March 22, 1951, in New York) is a Voyager scientist who discovered several moons<ref name="Blunck2009">Template:Cite book</ref> of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He works for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In 1984, together with Bradford A. Smith, Terrile became the first to photograph a protoplanetary disc around Beta Pictoris using a coronagraph.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Terrile is a supporter of the simulation hypothesis, the idea that our reality is a computer-generated virtual reality created by unknown programmers.<ref name="vice">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ideacity">Template:Cite web</ref>

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