Dante Lauretta

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Dr. Dante Lauretta (b. 1970), a professor at the University of Arizona, is a chemist who was the recipient of the 2002 Nier Prize of the Meteoritical Society.

Dr. Lauretta is known for his ground-breaking experimental work on the formation of iron-bearing sulfides in the solar nebula. He has also investigated the cosmochemical behavior of many elements such as mercury, boron and beryllium in meteorites.

Asteroid 5819 Lauretta was named in his honor. [1]

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