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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ideacity">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>