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Rocks on Mars named for Alabama locations in honor of late UAB professor

by Traci Bratton

November 03, 2014
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Tom Wdowiak is a late physics professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Scientists at NASA have decided to honor his memory by naming a ridge on Mars after him. The team has also named rocks in the ridge after places in Alabama that were of interest to Wdowiak.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20141102/NEWS/141109937/1291?Title=Rocks-on-Mars-named-for-Alabama-locations-in-honor-of-late-UAB-professor

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