Planetary Sciences and Meteoritics | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters, and tektites.

Recent News

Q&A with Charles Bolden, Former NASA Administrator and Astronaut

Analysis of "Rusty" Lunar Rock Suggest the Moon's Interior Is Dry

First Nuclear Explosion Helps Test Theory of Moon’s Formation

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Academics

LUGMAIR, GUNTER

Emeritus

BADA, JEFFREY

Emeritus

SUGIHARA, GEORGE

Professor

STEGMAN, Dave

Associate Professor

DAY, JAMES

Associate Professor

POMMIER, ANNE

Assistant Professor

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Centers, Labs, and Projects

Planetary Experimental Petrology Laboratory (PEPL)
Studies the interior of planets, specifically terrestrial bodies like Earth, the Moon, Mars, and Mercury.

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Recent Publications

1.34 billion-year-old magmatism on Mars evaluated from the co-genetic nakhlite and chassignite meteorites (2018) [10.1016/j.gca.2018.07.006]

Udry, A.; Day, J. M. D.

Volatile element evolution of chondrules through time (2018) [10.1073/pnas.1807263115]

Mahan, B.; Moynier, F.; Siebert, J.; Gueguen, B.; Agranier, A.; Pringle, E. A.; Bollard, J.; Connelly, J. N.; Bizzarro, M.

Influence of sulfur on the electrical resistivity of a crystallizing core in small terrestrial bodies (2018) [10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.032]

Pommier, A.

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