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Gene Shoemaker

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Gene Shoemaker Pioneering Planetary Geologist for whom The Planetary Society Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants are named.

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K Jeffrey Eriksen: 12/30/2012 05:15 CST

Gene was a great person. I took an intro geology course from him freshman year (1971) at Caltech that included field trips to Meteor Crater and the Grand canyon, and also went on a Colorado reiver rafting trip he led for the Caltech Y in 1978.

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