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‘Importance of Being Cratered’ lecture set May 13

12:54 p.m., May 12, 2004--Bevan French, a leading geologist, will explore shockwaves, craters and the effects of atmospheric debris on planets in a lecture titled “The Importance of Being Cratered,” set for 3:30 p.m., Thursday, May 13, in 209 Penny Hall.

A former researcher with the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA, French is a world-renowned expert on impact cratering and shock metamorphism. He now works as an impact cratering researcher at the Smithsonian Institution and recently published a book on shock metamorphism.

The free public lecture is sponsored by the Department of Geology.

For more information, call Billy Price Glass, professor of geology, at 831-2569.

Article by Becca Hutchinson

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