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Cathy Olkin

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described Olkin's contribution as "a thrilling account...of last-minute emergency repairs made to the New Horizons spacecraft as it traveled three billion miles to get a close-up of Pluto."
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Olkin also engages in public outreach. In 2015, Olkin shared discoveries from her work with NASA's New Horizons mission at a TEDxDetroit talk.
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in 1989. Olkin then returned to MIT where she earned a Ph.D. in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science in 1996. Her dissertation advisor was
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Olkin was born and raised in Michigan. As a child, Olkin considered a variety of careers in science and academia, including
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The Moth Presents: All These Wonders. True Stories About Facing the Unknown
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of 24. She has published over 400 papers, with more than 2,000 citations.
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She is also the author of the title story "All These Wonders" in
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor
James L. Elliot
www.boulder.swri.edu/~colkin/CathyOlkin/About_Me.html
planetary scientist
Southwest Research Institute
outer Solar System
NASA
Lucy mission
Trojan asteroids
Jupiter
geologist
paleontologist
archaeologist
doctor
pre-med
engineering
B.S.
Aeronautics
Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S.
Stanford University
James L. Elliot
New Horizons
Pluto
near-infrared
imaging spectrometer
Jupiter

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