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Oct 27 2005, Irani

Nearly 30 years ago a scientist predicted the importance of vaporization as one of the processes in space weathering. To bag another credit, scientist Bruce Hapke, Emeritis Professor at University of Pittsburgh have named the vapor-deposited iron...

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