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Member Since 2008
Rona Oran
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member, Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award Committee
Professional Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Scientist
2018 - Present
Education
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Doctorate
2014
Publications
A Post‐Launch Summary of the Science of NASA's Psyche Mission
Astronomical observations indicate that asteroid (16) Psyche is a large, high‐density (likely >3,400 kg·m−3), metal‐...
February 27, 2024
Mass loading of the solar wind by a sungrazing comet
August 06, 2014
Modeling solar wind mass‐loading in the vicinity of the Sun ...
January 13, 2014
AGU Abstracts
Lunar Crustal Magnetization from Impact-Generated Plasma Amplification of the Ancient Lunar Dynamo
AGU 2024
geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and electromagnetism | 11 december 2024
Isaac Narrett, Rona Oran, Yuxi Chen, Katarina Milj...
Spacecraft magnetometry and paleomagnetic measurements of Apollo samples provide evidence that the Moon had a magnetic field billions of years ago. Be...
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The Magnetometer on the Psyche Mission: Initial in-flight performance assessment and implications to the science objectives
AGU 2024
planetary sciences | 11 december 2024
Jose M. Merayo, Benjamin P. Weiss, Jodie B. Ream, ...
The hypothesis that asteroid (16) Psyche formed from the core of a differentiated planetesimal is one of the objectives of the Psyche mission (launche...
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The limits of particle trapping: implications for moons, asteroids, and the ancient Earth and Mars
UNDERSTANDING PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERIC PROCESSES THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND I ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 12 december 2023
Rona Oran, Raluca Ilie, Benjamin P. Weiss
Planetary environments and their interaction with the host star give rise to a myriad of magnetospheric plasma populations that may impact the planet'...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2025
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award Committee
2023 - 2023
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award Committee
2021 - 2021
Member
Space Physics and Aeronomy Fred L. Scarf Award Committee
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