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Erik ASPHAUG
Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
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PROFILE
Erik ASPHAUG is a planetary geophysicist and formation theorist who studies asteroids, comets and moons, and the giant impacts that dominated the late stage of planet formation. He also studies the properties of planetary materials, i.e. meteorites and the stories they tell, and engineering concepts for exploration missions and for simulating asteroid environments. He is Co-I of the NASA Psyche mission, and on the Science Teams of ESA's Hera mission to Didymos, and of JAXA's MMX mission to the Martian moons. With motivated students he has also worked on topics in Mars geomorphology, Saturn's rings, and the delivery of lunar water. He is author of the 2019 nonfiction book When The Earth Had Two Moons.
