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Planetary Sciences and Meteoritics

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.

Academics

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BADA, JEFFREY
Emeritus
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DAY, JAMES
Professor
John MacDougall
MACDOUGALL, J. DOUGLAS
Emeritus
David Stegman
STEGMAN, DAVE
Associate Professor
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SUGIHARA, GEORGE
Professor
Vashan Wright
WRIGHT, VASHAN
Assistant Professor
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Centers, Labs, and Programs

Planetary Experimental Petrology Laboratory (PEPL)

Studies the interior of planets, specifically terrestrial bodies like Earth, the Moon, Mars, and Mercury.

Scripps Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory (SIGL)

Specializing in high-precision isotopic analyses, elemental abundances, and petrology. Our main areas of research are in the fields of cosmochemistry and mantle and crustal geochemistry.

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