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Abbreviation | PSI |
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Formation | 1972 |
Founders | William Kenneth Hartmann |
Type | Nonprofit 501(c)(3) |
Focus | Planetary science |
Headquarters | Tucson, Arizona, United States |
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Official language | English |
Director | Mark V. Sykes |
Website | psi |
The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) [1] is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute based in Tucson, Arizona, focusing on planetary science.[2] As of 2018[update], its director is Dr. Mark V. Sykes.[3] PSI, along with Space Science Institute (SSI) Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and Eureka Scientific, were listed as 501(c)(3) organizations in the US in a special report by Nature in 2007, which facilitate federal grant applications of non-tenure-track astronomers.[4]