Nancy Chabot earned her B.A. in
physics from
Rice University in 1994. After earning her Ph.D. in
planetary science from the
University of Arizona in 1999, Chabot worked at the
Johnson Space Center in
Houston, then at
Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland. She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at
Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She has been a member of five field teams that traveled to
Antarctica with the
Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program to collect
meteorites. In 2001, Chabot was awarded the United States
Antarctic Service Medal. Currently, she is the Deputy PI for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. She is also the Coordination Lead on NASA's
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which was led by APL. She is a Fellow of the
Meteoritical Society, and Asteroid (6899) Nancychabot is named in her honor. ==References==