Philip T. Metzger

Philip T. Metzger is an American planetary physicist with the Florida Space Institute.^[1] In 2012 he co-founded NASA's Swamp Works,^[2] and in May 2018 he was honoured with the Outstanding Technical Contribution Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers,^[3] later that year he worked with Honeybee Robotics to develop the WINE spacecraft prototype.^[4] Metzger disagrees with the IAU definition of a planet.^[5]

Philip T. Metzger
Born	1962
Alma mater	Auburn University University of Central Florida University of Central Florida
Awards	Outstanding Technical Contribution Award (2018)
Website	sciences.ucf.edu/physics/person/phillip-metzger/
Academic career
Institutions	Kennedy Space Center (1985–1995) Kennedy Space Center (1995–2002) Kennedy Space Center (2002–2014) University of Central Florida (2014–)

A 4.6 km (2.9 mi) wide main-belt asteroid discovered on June 1, 2000 at the Anderson Mesa Station has been named after Metzger: 36329 Philmetzger.^[6]