Namya Baijal
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Planetary Science PhD Candidate, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory ☄️🌕
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UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
20 days ago
Congratulations, 2026 Galileo Scholars!
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Namya Baijal
Science X / Phys.org
2 months ago
Simulations of large craters on asteroid 16 Psyche suggest that its internal porosity significantly influences crater formation, offering insights into the asteroid’s composition and history
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Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche
Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the largest known metallic asteroid, at 140 miles in diameter.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-large-craters-clues-asteroid-psyche.html?utm_source=bsky.app&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=v2
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Namya Baijal
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
2 months ago
Astronomers continue to puzzle over asteroid 16 Psyche's formation. LPL grad student Namya Baijal and team have predictions to help interpret the data from NASA's Psyche mission when it arrives in 2029. The predictions may help settle the mystery of Psyche's makeup.
news.arizona.edu/news/large-c...
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Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche
Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Arizona model the formation of giant impact basins, or craters, on 16 Psyche in preparation for the arrival of NASA's Psyche mission in 202...
https://news.arizona.edu/news/large-craters-offer-clues-origin-asteroid-16-psyche
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Very excited to share that my first-author paper from my PhD research is now published in JGR-Planets:
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Here we simulate the formation of impact basins on Psyche to explore its origin and interior structure ahead of mission arrival in 2029!
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Exploring the Interior Structure of (16) Psyche Through Basin‐Scale Collisions
We simulate the formation of impact basins on asteroid (16) Psyche using 3D collisional models Psyche's shape, interior structure, porosity, and crushing strength influence the depth of excavatio...
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009231
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Namya Baijal
Dr. Adeene Denton
2 months ago
Very excited for my mentee
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's first paper, out today!! We've been hard at work doing high-resolution impact simulations of asteroid (16) Psyche prior to the NASA mission's arrival in 2029:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Exploring the Interior Structure of (16) Psyche Through Basin‐Scale Collisions
We simulate the formation of impact basins on asteroid (16) Psyche using 3D collisional models Psyche's shape, interior structure, porosity, and crushing strength influence the depth of excavatio...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009231
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Namya Baijal
Dr. Adeene Denton
3 months ago
Everyone,
@namyab.bsky.social
just had her first grad school paper accepted and I am so proud!!!!! Everyone tune in to a JGR: Planets issue near you to see my Umbriel paper AND her upcoming paper about cratering on Psyche!
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Namya Baijal
Planetary Science Institute
8 months ago
Last week, some PSI scientists and staff gathered in Helsinki, Finland with colleagues for a joint meeting between the Europlanet Science Congress and the U.S.-based Division for Planetary Sciences. See the full gallery here:
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Namya Baijal
UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
over 1 year ago
Kudos, Namya!
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