Tag: Asteroids

Night sky with a comet visible above a silhouetted landscape and trees, under a gradient sunset horizon

July 18, 2024 / Scott Bordow

9 months into a 6-year journey to a far-flung asteroid, NASA’s Psyche mission cruising along

These days, Lindy Elkins-Tanton is living out a Talking Heads song lyric: She’s keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the sky. Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of the Arizona...
Close-up images of simulated asteroid impact craters on a metallic surface, labeled a to f

September 5, 2019 / Simone Marchi

Simulating asteroid collisions and making craters

High-velocity impact experiments in support of the Psyche mission At the time of the Psyche mission selection, NASA officials asked us, “Is the science team ready to interpret the geology of...
Table comparing Full, Partial, and No Heritage across seven categories: Design, Manufacture, Software, Provider, Use, Operating Environment, and Referenced Prior Use

August 6, 2019 / Bill Hart

Some thoughts on trade studies

When I was an undergrad student at a university in northern Indiana with a penchant for football, Wednesday and Thursday nights were reserved for one thing: homework. I wasn’t necessarily driven...
This image shows the Principal Investigator, Lindy Elkins-Tanton, and other members of the team.

August 22, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The day that NASA called

This is the Facebook post that I wrote that day, January 4, 2017: I just looked up and it is now dark out, and 8:00 at night…the day has more than flown, it has evaporated.

Psyche logo with overlapping circles in orange, pink, and purple, enclosed by a gradient diamond outline

August 15, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Waiting

This is the Facebook post that I wrote three days before selection, January 1, 2017…