* Astronomy

It was a piece of Mars that set ASU geology professor Meenakshi “Mini” Wadhwa on a career investigating meteorites. At the time, Wadhwa, who directs the Centre for Meteorite Studies in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, was a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and newly arrived from India.

"I had come from a terrestrial geology background, and I wanted to study other planets.  I knew about the lunar material from the Apollo program, but not about any other extraterrestrial rocks."

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