Associate Curator
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
The American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St.
New York NY 10024-5192
phone: (212) 769-5381
fax: (212) 769-5339
email: debel@amnh.org
http://research.amnh.org/~debel
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DENTON S. EBEL Associate Curator Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences The American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. New York NY 10024-5192 phone: (212) 769-5381 fax: (212) 769-5339 email: debel@amnh.org http://research.amnh.org/~debel |
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LINKS: Teaching Resources Tomography STARDUST-aerogel Lunar Spherules-3D Meteorites in 2D + 3D sulfides + sulfosalts ftp downloads vitae (pdf version) Educator's Guide to Hall Meteorite Collection Earth and Planetary Sci. Department of Astrophysics AMNH Education |
Meteorites are pieces of planets, or samples of
the material 'left over' from formation of the sun and planets,
over four and a half billion years ago. They are clues to the origin of our solar system
and planetary systems around other stars.
I am a geologist specializing in the study of rocks from space.
I am the curator of the AMNH meteorite collection.
Our mission is to make meteorite samples available for research by scientists throughout the world.
Collections-based research is vital to the exploration of space and a better understanding
of our origins. (2004 white paper to NASA)
One focus of my research is modeling how gas, solid,
and melt phases interact at high temperatures and low pressures, to understand
the formation of the first solids, and molten (liquid) rock droplets in the solar system,
which eventually led to the accretion of the planets.
CONDENSATION I began my research career by investigating how silver, copper, nickel and platinum-group metal ores form in the Earth. By seeing how sulfide minerals react in the laboratory, I was able to model their thermodynamic properties, and develop predictive tools to find metal-rich rock in existing mines. Some of this work is introduced as: MAGMATIC SULFIDES and HYDROTHERMAL SULFOSALTS |
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| Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
phone: (212) 769-5381 |
| The American Museum of Natural History |
fax: (212) 769-5339 |
| Central Park West @ 79th Street. |
email: debel@amnh.org |
| New York NY 10024-5192 |
web: http://research.amnh.org/~debel/ |
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