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J. Brian Balta

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Tennessee

J. Brian Balta is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Tennessee specializing in the chemistry of meteorites and the geochemical history of Mars. He received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2010, and is an active writer for the pages The Earth Story and The Universe:

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