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Experts on Meteorites

Name	Missions & Mission Experience	Targets	Techniques	Major Facilities & Instrument Development
Gretchen Benedix		Asteroids, Mars, Meteorites, Moon	Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Electron Microscopy, Geochemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Spectroscopy	FTIR
Sanlyn Buxner	LRO, Lucy, Mars Odyssey, Phoenix Mars Lander	Earth, Meteorites, Moon	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work
Nicholas Castle	MSL ** Instrument operations, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars, Meteorites	Electron Microscopy, Field Work, Geology, Mass spectrometry, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Volcanism, X-Ray Diffraction	X-Ray Diffractometers, Mass spectrometers, Electron Microprobe
Amara Graps	Cassini, Dawn, Galileo, IRAS, New Horizons, Rosetta, Ulysses, Voyager ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Enceladus, Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Io, Io torus, Jupiter, Meteorites, Moon, Planetary rings, Saturn, Small satellites, Solar particles/Solar wind, Uranus, Vesta	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Magnetospherics, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Remote sensing, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Volcanism	IRTF, Palomar ** Cameras, Dust counter
Bill Hartmann	Mariner 9, Mars Express (ESA), Mars Global Surveyor	Asteroids, Comets, Earth, Mars, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites	Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Volcanism
Georgiana Kramer	Apollo, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Clementine, Dawn, Kaguya (Japan), LRO, Lunar Prospector ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Meteorites, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind, Vesta	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Geology, Geomorphology, Ground-based observing, Impacts, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mapping, Mass spectrometry, Mineralogy, Neutron spectroscopy, Petrology, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy	Cameras, Spectrometers, Imaging spectrometers
Lucille Le Corre	Cassini, Dawn, Hayabusa 1 (Japan), Hayabusa2 (Japan), OSIRIS-REx ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Science operations	Asteroids, Ceres, Dwarf planets, Europa, Icy satellites, Meteorites, Small satellites, Titan, Vesta	Geology, Geomorphology, Ground-based observing, Mapping, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy	IRTF ** Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Larry Lebofsky		Asteroids, Ceres, Dwarf planets, Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Meteorites, Moon, Pluto, Small satellites	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing
Tom McCord	Apollo, Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Dawn, Europa Clipper, Galileo, Mariner 9, Mars Express (ESA), Rosetta ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument PI, Mission science team, Optical design, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Comets, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Iapetus, Icy satellites, Mars, Mercury, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Titan, Vesta	Geochemistry, Geology, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling	Cerro Tololo, IRTF, Kitt Peak, Palomar ** Cameras, FTIR, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Carol Neese	Cassini, Dawn, OSIRIS-REx ** Data archive	Asteroids, Ceres, Dwarf planets, Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Kuiper Belt, Meteorites, Pluto, Small satellites, Vesta
Thomas Prettyman	Dawn, Lunar Prospector, Mars Odyssey, Psyche ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Electronics design, Flight Software, Instrument operations, Instrument PI, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down	Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Earth, Mars, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Vesta	3D Printing, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Geochemistry, Geology, Mapping, Neutron detectors, Neutron spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing, Shape modeling	Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors
Juan Sanchez		Asteroids, Meteorites, Small satellites	Spectroscopy, Remote sensing, Photometry, Ground-based observing, Mineralogy
Stu Weidenschilling		Asteroids, Comets, Exoplanets, Meteorites, Small satellites, Trans-Neptunian objects	High-Throughput Computing (HTC), Numerical modeling
John Weirich	OSIRIS-REx ** Spacecraft navigation	Asteroids, Enceladus, Iapetus, Mercury, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites	Geochemistry, Geology, Impacts, Mass spectrometry, Meteoritics, Mineralogy, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy, Shape modeling	Electron Microprobe, Mass spectrometers
Shawn Wright	MER ** Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars, Meteorites	Geology, Mineralogy, Remote sensing	Cameras, FTIR, Spectrometers, X-Ray Diffractometers

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