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Date: Nov 9 21:26 2011

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Meteorites and Meteor-wrongs __________________

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Date: Aug 28 08:28 2009

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In 1969, Randy Korotev was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin majoring, tentatively, in chemistry. After pursuing an interest in geochemistry sparked by flipping through the back pages of his chemistry book, Korotev landed in a lab working under a professor who studied lunar rocks - more specifically, lunar rocks brought back from the Apollo 11 mission. Now, after 40 years, Korotev is a research faculty member in the Washington University earth and planetary sciences department. Read more __________________

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Date: Mar 28 23:52 2007

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Randy Korotev has spent his life seeking meteorites, but has found meteor-wrongs are a lot more common. Korotev, a lunar geochemist, will speak about lunar meteorites at the 53rd annual William Thomas Jackson Lecture in Science at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in Becker Auditorium in the Cerf Center at Eureka College. Lunar meteorites have Korotev's attention because, as a chemistry student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969, he had an opportunity to study some of the earliest samples of moon rocks obtained by the Apollo 11 mission. Read more __________________

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