A.O.C. Nier Lecture: "The NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World"

Join the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and the School of Physics and Astronomy for the 2022 A.O.C. Nier Lecture "The NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World" with Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton.

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The NASA Psyche Mission is a journey to a metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system. The spacecraft will launch in August 2022 and rendezvous with asteroid Psyche in 2026.

About the speaker

Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton is the Pysche Mission Principal Investigator and one of the world’s foremost authorities on asteroids. She will discuss what we know about Psyche, the many things we do not know, and the importance of asteroids to understanding the origins of planets.