This is a $1,289,957.12 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona for a research project titled "Origins of Refractory Material in Stellar Systems from an Atomistic to a Macroscale Perspective." The grant is part of NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which supports research aimed at understanding the formation and early evolution of the solar system. The project will use a multifaceted approach integrating nanoscale analytical...
This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, to support research on the hydrothermal history of primitive asteroids. The research will involve coordinated microanalysis of carbonates in meteorites and returned samples. The grant has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2027. The University of Arizona is a public research university, 1862 land grant institution,...
This is a $814,996.38 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. The grant is for atomic-scale analysis of samples returned from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa mission and analysis of analog samples for the future Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return missions. The research effort is focused on understanding the thermal and weathering history of the...
This is a $342,348.34 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona for a research project titled "Active Asteroids are Interesting Because They Represent a New Population of Objects Where Surface Activity is Derived from a Range of Exogenic Factors Such as Hypervelocity Impacts, Rotational Instability Driven by YORP Effect." The grant is a civilian award with a performance period from February 14, 2020 to February 13, 2024....
This is a $124,130.15 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, for research on the direct imaging and interferometry of proto-planets at the epoch of disk clearing. The grant runs from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2021. The University of Arizona is a public research university and 1862 land grant institution located in Tucson, Arizona. As a state government entity, higher education...
The University of Arizona, a public research university and state government entity, was awarded a $403,086 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance the understanding of the early evolution of the Earth-Moon system during the first few tens of millions of years of the solar system's history. This grant, awarded on February 1, 2020, has a performance period through December 31, 2025. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Arizona...
This is a $2,919,855.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona (the prime contractor) for the Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility. The award has no set-aside designation. The University of Arizona, a public research university and 1862 land grant institution, will use the funding to support research, technical services, and educational programming across diverse scientific disciplines including astrophysics,...
The University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, has been awarded a $924,726.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on "Characterizing the Role of Solutes and Defects in the Origin of Refractory Planetary Materials." This grant has an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2027. The University of Arizona is a public research university and 1862 land grant institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The contract has...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona for research related to planetary systems and minor bodies like asteroids and comets. The award, valued at $88,973.59, runs through August 14, 2024 and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Arizona, a public research university and 1862 land grant institution, will provide services including theoretical and computational modeling, laboratory experimentation, field...
This is a $208,618.52 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, a public research university and 1862 land grant institution, for research related to the prevalence of terrestrial planets and their formation. The grant aims to leverage data from the Kepler and Tess space telescopes to study young planetary systems and the potential to observe Earth-like planets in habitable zones. This research grant supports NASA's mission to advance...
This is a $1,044,966.98 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona, a public research university, to conduct research on refractory dust, which provides clues about the formation of our solar system. The research involves detailed microscopic and computational analyses of meteoritic components, such as calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions and circumstellar grains, to understand their thermodynamic origins and the pressure-temperature conditions of the early solar nebula and circumstellar environments. The grant supports three distinct but related tasks, and the results will be used to inform models of protoplanetary and circumstellar dust evolution. This grant award is not associated with a set-aside program.