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Denton Ebel, a meteoriticist and associate curator in the Museum’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, uses an electron microprobe to excite the atoms on the surfaces of meteorite samples, revealing their mineral composition.
Learn about his process in this post.
Photo © AMNH/D. S. Ebel
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