BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//astrosociety.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:4d8bc833-f186-463a-8646-9c8c70b2ceac X-WR-CALDESC:Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Wednesday\, April 16\, at 6 :00 PM Pacific Time (9:00 PM Eastern) along with Dr. David Williams where we’ll discuss the current status of NASA’s Psyche Mission.\n\nIn January 2 017 NASA selected Arizona State University to lead the next of its small\, Discovery-class robotic planetary missions\, named Psyche. Named after i ts intended destination\, Main Belt asteroid (16) Psyche is the largest M- class (metallic) asteroid in the Solar System. It is thought to be the Fe -Ni core of an ancient planetesimal\, where the crust and mantle were remo ved by multiple impact events. The Psyche spacecraft will begin orbiting the asteroid in August of 2029 on a 24-month mission of exploration and di scovery. Join Professor David Williams\, the Deputy Imager Lead for the m ission\, for a discussion of asteroid Psyche\, the mission\, its objective s\, and its place in the broader exploration of our Solar System.\n\nAbout Dr. David Williams:\n\nDr. David A. Williams is a Research Professor in t he School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University\, Tem pe\, Arizona. Dr. Williams is the Director of the Ronald Greeley Center fo r Planetary Studies\, a NASA-supported planetary data center at ASU. David is currently performing research in volcanology and planetary geology\, w ith a focus on planetary mapping\, geochemical\, and remote sensing studie s. His research has included computer modeling of seismic wave propagation through planetary interiors\, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy of t he lunar surface\, planetary geologic mapping of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn\, the planet Mars\, the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planets C eres and Pluto\, computer modeling of the physical and geochemical evoluti on of lava flows in a variety of planetary environments\, and petrologic s tudy of lava samples from Mount St Helens. He was involved with NASA’s Mag ellan Mission to Venus\, Galileo Mission to Jupiter\, the European Space A gency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express orbiter mission\, and the NASA Dawn Mission t o asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. He is currently a Co-Investigator and Deputy Lead for the multispectral imager on NASA’s Psyche Mission\, w hich launched on October 13\, 2023. He is also a member of the Italian JAN US camera team of the ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission that launched on April 14\, 2023. In 2014 David was elected a Fellow of the Geo logical Society of America\, and asteroid 10\,461Dawilliams was named in h is honor. He was the Secretary of the Planetary Sciences Section of the Am erican Geophysical Union in 2019-2020. X-WR-RELCALID:1f46f5b3285ff653362739b9a5950ab7 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20251102T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b3c894e4-f203-481e-9b43-fb6e43b6a72f DTSTAMP:20260427T162429Z DESCRIPTION:Join the NASA Night Sky Network on Wednesday\, April 16\, at 6: 00 PM Pacific Time (9:00 PM Eastern) along with Dr. David Williams where w e’ll discuss the current status of NASA’s Psyche Mission.\n\nIn January 20 17 NASA selected Arizona State University to lead the next of its small\, Discovery-class robotic planetary missions\, named Psyche. Named after it s intended destination\, Main Belt asteroid (16) Psyche is the largest M-c lass (metallic) asteroid in the Solar System. It is thought to be the Fe- Ni core of an ancient planetesimal\, where the crust and mantle were remov ed by multiple impact events. The Psyche spacecraft will begin orbiting t he asteroid in August of 2029 on a 24-month mission of exploration and dis covery. Join Professor David Williams\, the Deputy Imager Lead for the mi ssion\, for a discussion of asteroid Psyche\, the mission\, its objectives \, and its place in the broader exploration of our Solar System.\n\nAbout Dr. David Williams:\n\nDr. David A. Williams is a Research Professor in th e School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University\, Temp e\, Arizona. Dr. Williams is the Director of the Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies\, a NASA-supported planetary data center at ASU. David is currently performing research in volcanology and planetary geology\, wi th a focus on planetary mapping\, geochemical\, and remote sensing studies . His research has included computer modeling of seismic wave propagation through planetary interiors\, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy of th e lunar surface\, planetary geologic mapping of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn\, the planet Mars\, the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planets Ce res and Pluto\, computer modeling of the physical and geochemical evolutio n of lava flows in a variety of planetary environments\, and petrologic st udy of lava samples from Mount St Helens. He was involved with NASA’s Mage llan Mission to Venus\, Galileo Mission to Jupiter\, the European Space Ag ency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express orbiter mission\, and the NASA Dawn Mission to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. He is currently a Co-Investigator and Deputy Lead for the multispectral imager on NASA’s Psyche Mission\, wh ich launched on October 13\, 2023. He is also a member of the Italian JANU S camera team of the ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission that l aunched on April 14\, 2023. In 2014 David was elected a Fellow of the Geol ogical Society of America\, and asteroid 10\,461Dawilliams was named in hi s honor. He was the Secretary of the Planetary Sciences Section of the Ame rican Geophysical Union in 2019-2020. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T190000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:NSN Webinar Series - Psyche: Exploration of a Metal World with Dr. David Williams END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR