PhD Candidate Soumya Ray is a co-author on a new research paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
The paper, Hypervelocity impact experiments in iron-nickel ingots and iron meteorites: Implications for the NASA Psyche mission, details the results of a series of high-velocity impact experiments performed on iron meteorites and cast metal ingots with iron and nickel compositions similar to iron meteorites.
These results will be utilized to interpret the nature and history of asteroid Psyche when the ASU-led NASA Psyche mission reaches its destination.
Marchi S., Durda D. D., Polanskey C. A., Asphaug E., Bottke W. F., Elkins-Tanton L. T., Garvie, L. A. J., Ray S., Chocron S., and Williams D. A. (2019) Hypervelocity impact experiments in iron-nickel ingots and iron meteorites: Implications for the NASA Psyche mission. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 24 October 2019. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE005927
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin.
