Various types of equipment are available
for meteorite research at PSU. The Geology department houses several petrographic
microscopes and has remote access to the Cameca SX100 electron microprobe
at Oregon State University.
Other large analytical e-beam instruments,
including an FEI Technai F-20 TEM/STEM and a Zeiss Sigma VP FEG SEM installed
in 2010, are available at the Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication
(CEMN, see equipment
list) at PSU.
Meteorite researchers at PSU also use
the laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometer (LA-ICPMS)
at the W.M. Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Spectrometry at Oregon State
University for in situ analyses of trace elements.
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Prof. Melinda Hutson uses
a petrographic microscope to study a meteorite thin section.
The Technai HR-TEM in the
CEMN.
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