P020
NASA’s Psyche Mission: Exploration of a Metal World

Session ID#: 162989

Session Description:
NASA’s Psyche mission is the first to send an orbiter to an M-class asteroid, (16) Psyche. The general science goal is to determine if asteroid Psyche is an exposed planetary core, or had some other origin. The Psyche spacecraft launches in 2023. The spacecraft includes multispectral imagers, a gamma-ray & neutron spectrometer, dual fluxgate magnetometers, and a gravity investigation. The Psyche mission will characterize geology, topography, and compositions through four orbital phases. This session brings together researchers from the Psyche team and the broader community to discuss what has been learned about asteroid Psyche over the last 5 years, and what the mission should look for when it arrives. We invite oral and poster presentations on all aspects of M-class asteroid/iron meteorite studies, as well as work on how the asteroid and other space physics phenomena will be explored during the mission.
Index Terms:

6205 Asteroids [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Primary Convener:  David A Williams, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  David A Williams, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Insoo Jun, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Surface Processes on Metal Worlds: Space Weathering, Micro-Impacts, & Regolith Formation in Meteoritic Metal (1047040)
John Christoph1, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton1 and Mark J Loeffler2, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Thermal Fatigue on 16 Psyche Driven by a Combination of High Obliquity and Surface Composition (1068928)
Carver Jay Bierson, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Joseph G O'Rourke, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Understanding the Origin and Evolution Iron-Rich Worlds from Spacecraft Exploration of Asteroid (16) Psyche (1075376)
Benjamin P Weiss1, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton2, James F Bell III2, Richard P Binzel3, Saverio Cambioni4, Tim McCoy5, Carol Ann Polanskey6, David J Lawrence7, Daniel Wenkert8 and Maria Zuber9, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (5)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
New ALMA Maps of the Thermal inertia and Dielectric Constant of Asteroid (16) Psyche (1089924)
Saverio Cambioni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Katherine de Kleer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael K Shepard, Bloomsburg Univ, Bloomsburg, PA, United States
 
Magnetic gradiometry techniques developed for the Psyche Magnetometry Investigation (1094461)
Jodie Barker Ream, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Benjamin P Weiss, MIT, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Rona Oran, Univ of Michigan--AOSS, Ann Arbor, United States, Carol A Raymond, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jose M.G. Merayo, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Maria de Soria-Santacruz Pich, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
 
Expected particle radiation around magnetized small bodies and implications to mission design (1098417)
Rona Oran1, Benjamin P Weiss2, Maria de Soria-Santacruz Pich3, Insoo Jun4, David J Lawrence5, Carol Ann Polanskey6, John Martin Ratliff6, Carol A Raymond4, Jodie Barker Ream7, Christopher T Russell7, Yuri Shprits8, Maria Zuber1, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton9 and The Psyche Mission Team, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (9)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
The Psyche Magnetometry Investigation (1103577)
Jose M.G. Merayo1, Benjamin P Weiss2, Jodie Barker Ream3, Rona Oran4, Peter Brauer5, Corey Cochrane6, Kyle D Cloutier7, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton8, John L Jørgensen9, Clara Maurel2, Ryan S Park10, Carol Ann Polanskey6, Maria de Soria-Santacruz Pich11, Carol A Raymond11, Christopher T Russell12, Daniel Wenkert11, Mark Wieczorek Sr.13 and Maria T Zuber14, (1)DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark, (2)MIT, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (9)Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (10)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur - Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France, (14)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
 
Heavy Metal Cratering: Impact Experiments and Simulations in Iron Meteorites (1108875)
Simone Marchi1, Amanda Alexander2,3, Sidney Chocron4,5 and William F Bottke Jr1, (1)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado in Boulder, Astrophysics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Astrophysics, Boulder, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
 
Shape Model of Asteroid (16) Psyche from SPHERE Images. (1145421)
Marin Ferrais1, Pierre Vernazza2, Laurent Jorda1, Nicolas Rambaux3 and Josef Hanus4, (1)Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France, (2)Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille Cedex 03, France, (3)Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris-IMCCE, Paris, France, (4)Charles University, Institute of Astronomy, Prague, Czech Republic
 
Constraints on the Parent Bodies of Fe-rich Meteorites and Asteroids from Siderophile Element Partitioning (1156694)
Edgar Steenstra, University of Münster, Institute of Mineralogy, Münster, Germany, Terry-Ann Suer, University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, United States and Simone Marchi, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
 
Psyche’s Flyby of Mars: A First Test for the Magnetometers (1183751)
Kyle Webster, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Steven P Joy, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Benjamin P Weiss, MIT, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
 
Exploring Porosity in Asteroid 16 Psyche with 3D Hydrocode Modeling of Its Deepest Impact Structure (1191032)
Wendy K Caldwell1, Abigail Hunter1 and Catherine S Plesko2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, X-Computational Physics Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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