Plantary Sciences Department -- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

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Dr. John S. Lewis

With LPL since: 1981

Current Projects:

Current LPL PhD students:

Current LPL postdocs:

Classes taught:
* NATS 102 Universe and Humanity: Origin and Destiny
* PtyS 106 Survey of the Solar System
* PtyS 407 Chemistry of the Solar System
* PtyS 510 Principles of Cosmochemistry

Selected Memberships/Committee Positions:
* Commissioner, Arizona State Space Commission
* NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility Advisory Committee
* NASA Lunar Exploration Science Working Group
* Director, American Rocket Company
* Vice-President for Research, and Director, ASPERA Corporation

Spacecraft involvement:

Recent references:
* Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System. J.S. Lewis (1994) Academic Press, New York, 550 pp.

* Logistical implications of water extraction from near-Earth asteroids. J.S. Lewis (1993) Space Manufacturing 9, pp. 3-7.

* Resources of Near-Earth Space. J.S. Lewis, M.S. Matthews, and M. Guerrieri, eds. (1993) University of Arizona Press, 977 pp.

* Composition, periodic element properties, and the composition and early evolution of Earth. J.S. Kargel and J.S. Lewis (1993) Icarus 105, pp. 1-25.

* Carbonaceous chondrites and the origin of life. H. Hartman, M.A. Sweeney, M.A. Kropp, and J.S. Lewis (1993) Origins of Life 23, pp. 221-227.


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