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Article: Mineral is named for UH scientist
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- May 3, 2003
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face=+2; The extraterrestrial mineral will be called keilite to honor its discoverer, Klaus Keilface=-2;
A new type of mineral discovered in extraterrestrial fragments of asteroids has been named keilite in honor of Klaus Keil, director of the University of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology.
Two scientists in Japan and one in Canada submitted the name to the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association in recognition of Keil's "outstanding research on the mineralogy and petrography of chondritic meteorites."
Keil and his colleagues discovered 12 new minerals in meteorites in 1967, calling them "niningerite."
However, in preparing ...