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Masaaki MIYAHARA

Affiliation Earth and Planetary Systems Science Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering
Title Associate professor
Room A604
E-mail miyahara[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Research Topics

  • Meteorites
  • High-Pressure mineral physics

Courses in Charge

Undergraduate courseMaterial evolution in the solar system, Exercise of astronomy & planetary science, etc.
Graduate courseTheory of the solar system evolution, etc.

Selected Publications

  1. Miyahara M., Kaneko S., Ohtani E., Sakai T., Nagase T., Kayama M., Nishido H. and Hirao N. Discovery of seifertite in a shocked lunar meteorite. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2733, 2013.
  2. Miyahara M., Ohtani E., Ozawa S., Kimura M., El Goresy A., Sakai T., Nagase T., Hiraga K., Hirao N. and Ohishi Y. Natural dissociation of olivine to (Mg,Fe)SiO3 perovskite and magnesiowüstite in a shocked Martian meteorite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 108, 5999-6003, 2011.
  3. Miyahara M., El Goresy A., Ohtani E., Nagase T., Nishijima M., Vashaei Z., Ferroir T., Gillet P., Dubrovinsky L. and Simionovici A. Evidence for fractional crystallization of wadsleyite and ringwoodite from olivine melts in chondrules entrained in shock-melt veins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 105, 8542-8547, 2008.