L. T. Elkins-Tanton

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist, the Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, and Arizona State University Vice President of the Interplanetary Initiative. Her research concerns the formation and evolution of rocky planets. She has led four field expeditions in central Siberia. Asteroid (8252) Elkins-Tanton is named for her, as is the mineral elkinstantonite. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She received the 2020 Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship from the NAS, and the 2010 Lowell Thomas award from the Explorers Club. Elkins-Tanton received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT.