John Schutt is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 mountaineer

Mountaineer

-Sports:*Mountaineering, the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountains, also known as alpinism-University athletic teams and mascots:*Appalachian State Mountaineers, the athletic teams of Appalachian State University...

 and a member of the yearly Antarctic search for meteorites (ANSMET

ANSMET

ANSMET is a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains. This geographical area serves as a collection point for meteorites that have originally fallen on the extensive high-altitude ice fields...

) program. John has probably recovered more meteorites than any single person in history and has personally recovered more samples of Mars

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...

. John has also served as a Field Safety Officer and camp manager for the Haughton-Mars Project

Haughton-Mars Project

The Haughton–Mars Project is an international interdisciplinary field research project being carried out near the Haughton impact crater on Canada's northern Devon Island. human-centered computing studies are aimed at determining how human explorers might live and work on other planetary...

 with annual field work held on Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

's Devon Island

Devon Island

Devon Island , claimed to be the largest uninhabited island on Earth, is located in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the second-largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada's sixth largest island, and the 27th...

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John won the Meteoritical Society's Service Award

Meteoritical Society's Service Award

This award honors members of the Meteoritical Society who have advanced the goals of the Society to promote research and education in meteoritics and planetary science in ways other than by conducting scientific research...

 in 2007. Asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 61190 Johnschutt

61190 Johnschutt

61190 Johnschutt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 1, 2000 by Myke Collins and Minor White at Anza. It was named after the mountaineer John Schutt.- External links :*...

 is named in his honor, as is the Schutt Glacier

Schutt Glacier

Schutt Glacier is a glacier in the Hillary Coast region of the Ross Dependency. It flows south to join the Upper Staircase of the Skelton Glacier close to Stepaside Spur. It is named after John Schutt, Dept...

in Antarctica.