Benjamin P. Weiss, Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences
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Ph.D., Planetary Science and Geology, California Institute of Technology
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Benjamin Weiss is conducting laboratory magnetic studies on extraterrestrial and terrestrial materials to understand planetary evolution. He is also developing a new paleomagnetic tool called SQUID microscopy which is several orders of magnitude more sensitive than standard SQUID moment magnetometry and makes high-resolution magnetic maps of room temperature samples.
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bpweiss@mit.edu
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Benjamin Weiss
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 54-814
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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617-324-0224 (office)
617-324-1625
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Louzada, K. L., S. T. Stewart, B. P. Weiss, J. Gattacceca, R. J. Lillis, J. S. Halekas (2009) Impact demagnetization of the Martian crust: Current knowledge and future directions, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., submitted
Carporzen, L., B. P. Weiss, J. Gattacceca, and D. L. Shuster (2009) Evidence for a metallic core in the CV chondrite parent planetesimal, , submitted
Elkins-Tanton, L. T., B. P. Weiss, and M. T. Zuber (2009) Chondrites as samples of differentiated planetesimals, , submitted
Louzada, K. L., S. T. Stewart, B. P. Weiss, J. Gattacceca, and N. S. Bezaeva (2009) Shock and static pressure demagnetization of pyrrhotite and implications for the Martian crust, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., submitted
Shuster, D. L., I. Garrick-Bethell, G. Balco, V. A. Fernandes, B. P. Weiss (2009) A record of impacts preserved in the lunar regolith, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., submitted
Garrick-Bethell, I. and B. P. Weiss (2009) Kamacite blocking temperatures and the origins of lunar magnetism, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in revision
Weiss, B. P., J. Gattacceca, S. Stanley, P. Rochette, and U. R. Christensen (2009) Paleomagnetic records of meteorites and early planetesimal differentiation, Space Sci. Rev., in press
Maloof, A. C., S. T. Stewart , B. P. Weiss, S. A. Soule, N. Swanson-Hysell, K. L. Louzada, I. Garrick-Bethell, and P. M. Poussart (2010) Geology of Lonar crater, India, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 122, 109-126 / link / / supplementary information /