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Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

Lindy Elkins-Tanton portrait taken at Space Sciences Laboratory

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, a geologist and planetary scientist, will be the new director of UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, effective July 1. She currently leads the NASA Psyche mission to explore an asteroid called Psyche.

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