What can an asteroid tell us about our own Planet. #023 with Lindy Elkins-Tanton

from Alien Crash Site · host Caitlin McShea, Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Santa Fe Institute

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This week, Alien Crash Site invites Lindy Elkins-Tanton into the Zone. Lindy is a Foundation and Regents Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. She is the Vice-president of ASU’s InterPlanetary Initiative. And, she is the principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche Mission: an attempt to understand a metal rich asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter which may provide us with some clues about planetary formation.

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