Judaism teaches that to save one life is to save an entire world. What about when you save the world?
Join Dr. Nancy Chabot, who led NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), in conversation with Vilna community member Jason Weiner, to learn more about planetary defense. The DART mission successfully demonstrated a method of asteroid deflection by kinetic impact which could help to protect Earth from potential asteroid impacts in the future.
This program is part of our signature Lifesavers Speaker Series that invites us to engage deeply with individuals championing social justice and positive change.This lecture is generously sponsored by Jason Weiner and Nicole Zatlyn.
Listen to Dr. Nancy Chabot Explain DART in Her Own Words Below
Dr. Nancy L. Chabot is a planetary scientist whose research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of rocky planetary bodies in our solar system, and she has over 80 peer-reviewed publications. She is the Coordination Lead on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the Deputy PI for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, and an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission.
Previously, she served as the Instrument Scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and the Chair of the Geology Discipline Group on NASA’s MESSENGER mission. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program, is a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society, and asteroid 6899 Nancychabot is named in her honor.
She has served in community leadership positions such as Chair of NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group, Chair of the Panel on Small Solar System Bodies for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, and currently as President of the Meteoritical Society.
Jason Weiner is a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments where he has worked since 1991. He lives with his wife and family in Boston.