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

STEGMAN, Dave

Associate Professor

LUGMAIR, GUNTER

Emeritus

POMMIER, ANNE

Assistant Professor

DAY, JAMES

Professor

SUGIHARA, GEORGE

Professor

BADA, JEFFREY

Emeritus

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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

Mercury's thermal evolution controlled by an insulating liquid outermost core? (2019) [10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.022]

Pommier, A.; Leinenweber, K.; Tran, T.

 Petrology of the enriched poikilitic shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the martian interior (2019) [10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.001]

Combs, Logan M.; Udry, Arya; Howarth, Geoffrey H.; Righter, Minako; Lapen, Thomas J.; Gross, Juliane; Ross, Daniel K.; Rahib, Rachel R.; Day, James M. D.

Mantle source to near-surface emplacement of enriched and intermediate poikilitic shergottites in Mars (2019) [10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.034]

Rahib, Rachel R.; Udry, Arya; Howarth, Geoffrey H.; Gross, Juliane; Paquet, Marine; Combs, Logan M.; Laczniak, Dara L.; Day, James M. D.

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