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Member Since 1996
Lindy T. Elkins-Tanton
Vice President, Arizona State University
Honors & Awards
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture
Received December 2024
Union Fellow
Received December 2016
Citation
For convincingly elucidating the formation and differentiation of rocky planets and planetesimals, from their interiors to their atmospheres.
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Publications
Ferric Iron Evolution During Crystallization of the Earth and Mars
Magma ocean crystallization models that track fO2 evolution can reproduce the D/H ratios of both the Earth and Mars without the need for exogenous ...
September 13, 2024
A Post‐Launch Summary of the Science of NASA's Psyche Missio...
February 27, 2024
Thermal‐Infrared Emission Spectroscopy of Graybody Minerals ...
February 24, 2023
Visible to Near‐Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy of Asteroi...
January 26, 2023
Cold Compaction and Macro‐Porosity Removal in Rubble‐Pile As...
October 19, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Spatially Resolved Spectral Variability Across Psyche's Surface
SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES: SAMPLE RETURNS, JWST, GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMY, AND MORE I POSTER
planetary sciences | 13 december 2023
Stephanie Jarmak, Charles E. Woodward, Tracy M. Be...
We used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe Psyche, the largest M-type asteroid and target of the NASA mission 'Psyche'. Our JWST program...
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Understanding the Origin and Evolution Iron-Rich Worlds from Spacecraft Exploration of Asteroid (16) Psyche
NASA'S PSYCHE MISSION: EXPLORATION OF A METAL WORLD III ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2022
Benjamin P. Weiss, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, James F...
Astronomical observations have discovered a diversity of dense, likely iron-rich worlds with sizes ranging from that of asteroids to super-Earth exopl...
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Expected particle radiation around magnetized small bodies and implications to mission design
NASA'S PSYCHE MISSION: EXPLORATION OF A METAL WORLD III ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2022
Rona Oran, Benjamin P. Weiss, Maria de Soria-Santa...
Energetic charged particles trapped in radiation belts around magnetized bodies are hazardous to orbiting spacecraft. To date, radiation belts have be...
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Volunteer Experience
2017 - 2018
Immediate Past President
Planetary Sciences Executive Committee
2015 - 2016
Member
Planetary Sciences Executive Committee
2015 - 2016
President
Student Breakfast SFG Leaders
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